[OT] Fast and Quiet Harddrive

[Kurt Wall]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 03:25:33PM -0800, Ken Leyba took 0 lines to write:
> I think the SATA drives are generally quiet, SCSI seems always to be
> noisy.  I just read a review of hard drives in Maximum PC and they
> liked the Western Digital Caviar WD400KD.  It was the fastest 7200RPM
> drive tested (against Seagate, Maxtor and the dreaded Hitachi
> DeathStar) and the quietest.  The downside was that it was a 400GB vs.
> the 500GB of the rest.

Fastest is fine, but there are at least two other factors to consider: 
1) Reliability
2) Cost/MB - that 400GB drive might be a better value per MB than that
   500GB drive

Kurt
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