[OT] Fast and Quiet Harddrive

[Ken Leyba]

Well...obviously, but he asked for quiet fast drives, not the cheapest
or most reliable.  Though staying away from Hitachi goes without
saying (been there done that).  Like everything else there is a
balance of features vs. price.

Maxtor Diamond Max 11 $350
Seagate 7200.9 $355
Hitachi 7K500 $355
Western Digital  WD400KD $215

Ken

On 12/29/05, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> 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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Ken Leyba
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