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12/21 What's the quietest, most reliable 300-500GB HD out there these
days? I'm mainly concerned with reliability/sound/price per GB
to store lots of media stuff, and I'm not too concerned about
performance. Also a related question, when do you guys think
1T drives will come out, 2008? 2009?
\_ in my experience, seagate drives tend to be quieter than others
\_ Generally speaking, faster spin = louder. Go check out a hardware
review site like http://tomshardware.com, anandtech or sharkeys (and many
others) for specifics on various popular/common drive models.
\_ http://storagereview.com
\_ I have two Seagate ST330831AS 300 GB SATA drives in my G5. They
are pretty quiet and have been fairly reliable. Not bad for about
$100 each.
\_ Define "fairly reliable".
\_ Stores bits correctly 9,999,999 times out of 10,000,000
times?
\_ I've had them for a little under a year and haven't had
any problems in terms of slow performance or read/write
errors (I can't say the same about Maxtor drives I've
owned in the same time period). No errors in terms of
SMART status either.
owned in the same time period). I usually check the SMART
status as well using DW and I haven't noticed anything
abnormal (w/ Maxtor drives I've seen errors w/in 3mo). |
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| tomshardware.com -> www.tomshardware.com/ Tom's Hardware Guide Community The best knowledge base remains the human brain. It adapts quickly to change, and is very adept at solving complex problems that defy logic. Sounds like the ideal resource for anyone into hardware. If you want to start a thread with like-minded hardware enthusiasts, or you're looking for someone who has experience of a particular device, or a problem you may have, this is the place to be. May 13, 2004 - E3 Preview of Activision's Hottest PC Titles THG takes you behind the scenes at E3 for a sneak preview of Activision's upcoming game titles. Get a glimpse of what to look out for this fall upon the release of three new exciting titles. THG takes you behind the scenes at E3 for a sneak preview of Activision's upcoming game titles. Get a glimpse of what to look out for this fall upon the release of three new exciting titles. May 11, 2004 - Modding The Xbox Into The Ultimate Multimedia Center Like a teenage kid with a genius IQ who is addicted to video games, Microsoft's Xbox offers a lot of untapped potential. THG downloads a version of Xbox Media Center software and installs it on an Xbox mod from FriendTech to show just what the game console is capable of. Like a teenage kid with a genius IQ who is addicted to video games, Microsoft's Xbox offers a lot of untapped potential. THG downloads a version of Xbox Media Center software and installs it on an Xbox mod from FriendTech to show just what the game console is capable of. May 11, 2004 - Networld+Interop 2004 Las Vegas Show Report - Opening Day We've begun our prowl of the smaller and gentler Networld+Interop 2004 Las Vegas show. It only took about three hours to do a walk-through of the entire show floor, but there were still some interesting things to see. Check out our report for what we've seen, hope to see and don't think we'll be seeing at all. We've begun our prowl of the smaller and gentler Networld+Interop 2004 Las Vegas show. It only took about three hours to do a walk-through of the entire show floor, but there were still some interesting things to see. Check out our report for what we've seen, hope to see and don't think we'll be seeing at all. May 10, 2004 - Intel's Dothan Makes Its Late Debut Intel's Dothan mobile processor has the trappings to boost performance while consuming less power. With a 2-MB L2 cache backed by Intel's 90-nm production technology, Dothan's promise is put to the test in a notebook from Winbook. Intel's Dothan mobile processor has the trappings to boost performance while consuming less power. With a 2-MB L2 cache backed by Intel's 90-nm production technology, Dothan's promise is put to the test in a notebook from Winbook. May 9, 2004 - The Hitman Returns to His Killing Business Gamers can once again assume the persona of the famous Hitman in the third installment of the IO Interactive series, Hitman: Contracts. A THG editor reenters death's door to see if the graphics, sound and controls live up to expectations of assassinations past. Gamers can once again assume the persona of the famous Hitman in the third installment of the IO Interactive series, Hitman: Contracts. A THG editor reenters death's door to see if the graphics, sound and controls live up to expectations of assassinations past. April 27, 2004 - Contour Design's Shuttle Pro 2 Breaks the Keyboard Ball-and-Chain The Shuttle Pro 2, with its 15 programmable buttons and twin jog shuttles, is designed to help you avoid having to move your hands from the mouse to keyboard. But does this controller meet the needs of the video professional? The Shuttle Pro 2, with its 15 programmable buttons and twin jog shuttles, is designed to help you avoid having to move your hands from the mouse to keyboard. But does this controller meet the needs of the video professional? |
| storagereview.com Fujitsu's Newly-Announced SCSI Drives 08 March 2004 Fujitsu today announced a refresh of both its 10k and 15k RPM SCSI lines, the second step (following Hitachi's announcement of its Ultrastar 10K300) in a long-awaited update in SCSI densities and capacities. The 10,000 MAT series combines up to four platters to yield a flagship capacity of 300 gigabytes while the 15,000 RPM MAU pushes up to 147 GB. Fujitsu will finally incorporate FDB motors across the board, hopefully combining reduced noise levels with the firm's top-rate performance. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (formerly IBM storage) is once again first out of the gate, this time offering a 300 GB 10K RPM drive, the Ultrastar 10K300. Like the previous Ultrastar 146Z10, the 10K300 achieves this high capacity by incorporating five rather than the more standard four platters in the flagship unit. The drive incorporates FDB motors, which will hopefully attentuate the line's previous penchant towards very high idle noise levels. Miscellanea 20 February 2004 This week yielded a couple interesting developments on the hard drive front. The first was Seagate's official announcement of their 25" Savvio line. The benefits, of course, are numerous- lower access times via standardization of smaller platters, less heat and noise due to the physically smaller size, cost savings via both less consumed material and less required physical space to store large arrays of disks, etc. Many readers have noted the distinct lack of advancement (capacity-wise) in the enterprise domain. The traditional fourth quarter of last year, for instance, passed with conspicuous silence as no major new units were announced. A combination of technological hurdles with somewhat tapered-off demand. And, while the maximum capacity per unit hasn't increased in a while, consider that one can fit several 25" Savvio drives in the same space that one 35" Cheetah occupies. That said, we're told larger disks in the traditional form-factor will appear this year. On another front, SR has never taken an official stance regarding the IBM Deskstar 75GXP reliability issue. Witness, for example, the amount of posters in both SR's community as well as others decrying a given family or brand based on a single experience. Ruminations over at Tech-Report, however, indicate that documents uncovered in the ongoing class-action lawsuit against the firm provide the most concrete evidence yet that the 75GXP suffers from serious problems. The Raptor Review 28 January 2004 A preview late last year of Western Digital's next-generation Raptor indicated world-class non-server performance coupled with the future promise of competitive server scores through the introduction of tagged command queuing. The WD740GD has hit the channels and been readily available for a bit. We've spent the past 36 hours uploading our last daily backup at a painfully slow pace. Most of the data is in place- all site features except the forum (the database of which is having tricky problems with MySQL3) and features that depend on the forum login (the reliability survey and reader polls) should be up and running without a hitch. Importing the forum database is a bit more complicated since RHE3 includes (sigh) MySQL3 while the forum database was powered by MySQL4. Though MySQL's site states that v3 can accept dumps generated by v4 without a hitch, practice, as usual, has been different (Update 3:35 AM: MySQL4 upgrade complete, forums operational). |