[OT] Fast and Quiet Harddrive

[Vu Pham]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org 
> [mailto:linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org] On Behalf Of Ken Leyba
> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 5:26 PM
> To: Linux tips and tricks
> Subject: Re: [OT] Fast and Quiet Harddrive
> 
> 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.
> 
> My home system is an Intel BTX mobo/cpu and case with a WD 
> 160GB hard drive and it's very quite.  That is until I run 
> qemu which usually jumps my CPU utilization to over 75% and 
> the fans kick in, the I'm in a wind tunnel.
> 

I just ordered the Seagate 7200.8 250MB SATA drives. They say it's pretty
quiet although not the fatest one. Small capacity is not a problem for me
because my working PC has almost only compilers/libraries/codes. I am going
to install them this weekend and will let you know how it goes.

Vu