Some tested harddrives (1 Viewer)

[laeb66]

Seagte 300Gb 8mb 7200 rpm S-ATA: Quiet and nice but need some cooling some vibration when read and write

Seagte 400Gb 8mb 7200 rpm S-ATA: Quiet reading and writing no problem with temprature


Seagte 500Gb 16mb 7200 rpm S-ATA: Quiet when write some noise when reading no heating problem att all... And it´s the fastest disk a have tryed..

Conclusion...

For HTPC use the 400 is the perfect...
For speed the 500
Not for use the 300....

 

[tkortell]

This might become a useful thread I'll check out my hardrives and report back...

R / tk

 

[Brocklander]

Seagte 250Gb 8mb 7200 rpm IDE: Noisy during heavy writing, otherwise quiet. Recording 2 programs from my PVR500 is barely audible in the room, but copying files etc is too noisy.

I'm buying a Seagate 300Gb 7200 rpm SATA tomorrow for a second drive (same drive as mentioned above), I can't stretch to the 400Gb so hopefully it won't be too bad. I only got the IDE drive because I didn't read the description properly on the online store :?

 

[laeb66]

New drive

Seagte 250Gb 8mb 7200 rpm IDE: Noisy during heavy writing, otherwise quiet. Recording 2 programs from my PVR500 is barely audible in the room, but copying files etc is too noisy.

I'm buying a Seagate 300Gb 7200 rpm SATA tomorrow for a second drive (same drive as mentioned above), I can't stretch to the 400Gb so hopefully it won't be too bad. I only got the IDE drive because I didn't read the description properly on the online store :?

The price diffrent in sweden off 250 to 400 it´s about 20$

Why not by S-ATA and spend 10$ on a IDE to S-ATA adapter I was used one from Tekram in my old system and this workt w/o problem!!

 

[Brocklander]

Here in New Zealand 300Gb is $230, 400Gb is $420, 500Gb is $590 (all Seagate SATA drives in NZ Dollars). My computer has both IDE and SATA, I meant to get a SATA drive but I brought an IDE by mistake

 

[James]

My vote goes to Samsung for quite.

I now have 3 samsung drives two in different laptops and one in my HTPC (only a 160 ATA) but they are all very quite.

/James

 

[ronilse]

My votes goes as James to samsungs SpinPoint series, I have 2 x 250 IDE & 1 x 250 ATA in the same cabinet. Very silent (can't hear them at all) and no heat problem.

Regards
Roy

 

[laeb66]

My votes goes as James to samsungs SpinPoint series, I have 2 x 250 IDE & 1 x 250 ATA in the same cabinet. Very silent (can't hear them at all) and no heat problem.

Regards
Roy

I think I gone take a closer look at this drive

just 100 euro for 250 Gb a god deal

 

[Koschel]

My vote goes to Samsung too.
I have 3x Samsung HA250JC (250GB IDE). Very quiet and no heat problem.

 

[tkortell]

I have a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250GB. It gets werry hot and vibrates quite muche...

I have a Silverstone FP53 on the way, I'll let you know if this helps...

Silverstone FP53 -> http://www.silverstonetek.com/products-fp53.htm