The first computer I personally owned was equipped with a massive 10Mb HDD (I think it was an IBM drive), and nowadays we don't even bat an eye at 1Tb or 2TB capacities. Oh how I love technological progress! :D
Anyhow, while the data seems good on these drives, I don't think I will ever trust a Seagate disk again. I've had experience with Samsungs, Seagates, IBMs (*shudder*), Maxtors and WDs, and out of all of them no WD disk has ever failed me. In fact, I'm still running an old 80Gb WD drive that's still reported as "healthy" by WD's drive diagnostics app. But, the one that failed most spectacularly (and, of course, highly inconveniently) was a Seagate that contained, at the time unprinted, term papers. Let me tell you, that turned out to become a weekend of virtually no sleep and not much of anything besides re-writing the papers. I made a vow never to buy Seagates again!
Originally Posted by faugusztin Maybe the point is the word "office". In office you probably don't hear the extremly loud seek (just google for silentpcreview of 7200.10 drive), in office the most common setup is with one HDD (so temperature doesn't matter). And with their recent firmware fiasco - sorry, i'm not the adventurous type.
Fair enough - but temperature doesn't matter unless you encase them in lead tbh - we leave ours out in the open with no extra cooling and by office I mean every test bench. The Firmware fiasco is BS though, I agree.
The .12 noise is very good - ever so slightly lower noise than the Samsung 1Tb in my opinion and far lower noise on spin-up.
Faugusztin, it seems that your HDD is rather faulty, you should RMA it if you still can. It definitely shouldn't vibrate that much to cause noise even in crappy cases. By coincidence, I've seen HDD with similar symptoms you described(really hot, shaking unhealthily), we RMA it and received new one - free of problems.
so if I was in the market for a new OS drive, would this be good, or the Spinpoint? I don't want to pay double for a raptor as I'd rather save that money towards an OC SSD . Or is 1TB as a boot drive just too unnecessary?
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ReplyAnyhow, while the data seems good on these drives, I don't think I will ever trust a Seagate disk again. I've had experience with Samsungs, Seagates, IBMs (*shudder*), Maxtors and WDs, and out of all of them no WD disk has ever failed me. In fact, I'm still running an old 80Gb WD drive that's still reported as "healthy" by WD's drive diagnostics app. But, the one that failed most spectacularly (and, of course, highly inconveniently) was a Seagate that contained, at the time unprinted, term papers. Let me tell you, that turned out to become a weekend of virtually no sleep and not much of anything besides re-writing the papers. I made a vow never to buy Seagates again!
Faugusztin, it seems that your HDD is rather faulty, you should RMA it if you still can. It definitely shouldn't vibrate that much to cause noise even in crappy cases. By coincidence, I've seen HDD with similar symptoms you described(really hot, shaking unhealthily), we RMA it and received new one - free of problems.
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