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by alfred
Mon Jul 03, 2006 11:10 pm
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB: Big Low Noise Champ?
Replies: 107
Views: 120184

MikeC I agree with you on all these. I've always taken the review comments as the main evaluation information. When reading the WD5000KS article I was somewhat intrigued that my listening of your mp3 didn't entirely correlate to what you described; I now understand the higher-than-real-life mid/high...
by alfred
Mon Jul 03, 2006 7:22 pm
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB: Big Low Noise Champ?
Replies: 107
Views: 120184

The difference was enough that we have re-examined the methodology that we use to make recordings. Look for an article with details (and new recordings of the WD5000KS) in a couple of days. This is good news indeed :wink: But does it mean you now think there was something misleading in the mp3 reco...
by alfred
Mon Jul 03, 2006 7:12 am
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB: Big Low Noise Champ?
Replies: 107
Views: 120184

Hi JazzJackRabbit, I'm sorry I didn't make this clearer -- I didn't compare these two drives at home, the AB listening test I wrote about was based on the mp3 files from the SPCR reviews. The flac and wav files you can get on the link simply are 6-seconds audio files that alternate 1 second Samsung ...
by alfred
Mon Jul 03, 2006 1:54 am
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: New Samsungs no longer quiet
Replies: 73
Views: 53353

Maybe I was quite lucky but I haven't found any significant idle- nor AAMseek- level noise differences between my 6 P120 (4 SP2514N and 2 SP2504C); they were bought in 3 different stores, one at a time, throughout the last 2 years, and only two of them show a similar manufacturing date. Two of these...
by alfred
Sun Jul 02, 2006 9:36 pm
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB: Big Low Noise Champ?
Replies: 107
Views: 120184

I've been reading SPCR for quite some time and it has always been the best information source I could find on HDD noise. Each day I'm using many HDDs in several PCs, some of them built to be the quietest I can get; obviously using many hints found on SPCR. At home I'm using Nexus Drive-a-Way enclosu...