http://www.pacificgeek.com/product.asp? ... 202&S=1000
Does anybody know anything about this drive? I Was looking at ultra quiet 2.5 inch drives and this one seems like it would be silent. Has anybody used one? I cant find any reviews or benchies.
Edit: Can anybody verify this drive exists? I can't find mention of it on seagate's site. Im thinking the idiots at pacific geek made a typo......
New Seagate 4200RPM Drive?
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New Seagate 4200RPM Drive?
Last edited by zodaex on Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:09 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Ok, how about this 4200rpm model from Seagate? http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=ST980811AS Has anyone tried one of these drives?mentawl wrote:A google search for the model number turns up that it's a 5400.3 model, running at 5400rpm. Nothing special.
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=ST980811AS
EDIT: Hmm..among all the links saying "5400.3" there's also http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?v ... cale=en-US
Looks funny, but says 4200.
EDIT: Hmm..among all the links saying "5400.3" there's also http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?v ... cale=en-US
Looks funny, but says 4200.
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I hardly see the point in slowing the spindle speed down any further. My Acer Extensa laptop came with a 160GB Hitachi 5K250 5400 rpm hard drive, and I've since swapped in a 320GB Hitachi 7K320 7200 rpm drive, and it just makes enough noise so that I can actually hear it when the hard drive spins down. The 160GB one has moved into my secondary desktop as the main drive to allow the noisy Seagate 7200.9 500GB drive to spin down most of the time. Even running alone with just the slowed down Nexus fans in my main system, it's inaudible from more than a foot or two away, even at night in this quiet room. It's actually a bit quieter than the 100GB 4200 rpm Toshiba that came in my previous Acer Aspire laptop, and over 2x as fast in nearly every measure.