Seagate 400GB Barracuda 7200.8 SATA Hard Disk Review Posted! - Page 2

yhng · 26th Jul 2005, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Adrian Wong

That's odd. The two 7200.8 drives here are quiet, except when they seek. Even then, the seeks are low-pitched.

Yup that's what I meant. It is still a moderately silent drive, but if you are in the environment I'm in, the slightest noise is obvious.

I guess silence is quite a subjective matter. To me, the increase in seek noise is a no-no and I guess for this reason I won't prefer the 7200.8 over some of the HDDs I have. AFAIK, the 7200.8 does not support AAM and as such if i wanted a dead silent PC, it's still not the drive I would recommend

peaz · 26th Jul 2005, 02:44 PM

Yup. agreed that it's subjective. However, the one here that I'm using is really silent, then only noise I hear from my machine is the low hum of the 120mm fan on my radiator....

Adrian Wong · 26th Jul 2005, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by yhng

Yup that's what I meant. It is still a moderately silent drive, but if you are in the environment I'm in, the slightest noise is obvious.

I guess silence is quite a subjective matter. To me, the increase in seek noise is a no-no and I guess for this reason I won't prefer the 7200.8 over some of the HDDs I have. AFAIK, the 7200.8 does not support AAM and as such if i wanted a dead silent PC, it's still not the drive I would recommend

Hmm.. Maybe it's because I am used to the Western Digital Caviar which had a rather loud whine.

yhng · 26th Jul 2005, 02:53 PM

LOL...I think i'm just spoilt with the samsung spinpoints. I've previously got rid of all my WD Caviars and the loudest I had were the 7200.7. Now it's the 7200.8

Olle P · 26th Jul 2005, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by werty316

Well it would be alright be I would rather like 2 200gigs instead just incase one craps out. I mean to loose 400gigs of data would suck big time and thats if you can fill 400gigs.

I sort of agree here.
- 2x 200 GB HDDs are cheaper.
- If you run them as separate drives they provide some storage safety, if you use raid to run them as one drive you get more speed.

Therefore it would be nice to see the benchmarks compared to a 2x200 GB raid configuration.

The only reason I see to buy a 400 GB HDD is because you really need the storage capacity but don't have the cooling/space/power supply needed for two drives.

Filling up 400 GB isn't very difficult if you do a lot of digital filming (and editing of those films), but you don't have individual files larger than 100 GB.

/Olle

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26th Jul 2005, 02:53 PM	#14 (permalink)
yhng I'm a regular Join Date: 12 Oct 2004 Location: Melbourne <-> London Posts: 494 Reputation: 171 Rep Power: 7	LOL...I think i'm just spoilt with the samsung spinpoints. I've previously got rid of all my WD Caviars and the loudest I had were the 7200.7. Now it's the 7200.8 __________________ Life would be much easier if I had the source code.