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Are all hard drives this noisy?

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F1N3ST

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I am used to the noise by now....my previous drive was an 80GB Raptor, now I moved to a 150GB Raptor...and I have one question do all HD's make lotsa noise when reading/writing?? 🙁.

Living with the noise for too long I say!

Recommendations for trade? Or sell + buy a new one?

Have been thinking about buying a SSD...i need some recommendations for low price decent performance ones. I have a 7200.11 Seagate lying here....how's the noise on those, and is it possible to say use a SSD for boot, and have my programs on the windows partition, but stored on a different drive? Sounds dumb but it seems like it would be nicer than installing programs on a different drive.

Seagate needs to be RMA'd still -.-
 
I just bought an OCZ Vertex SSD drive and couldn't be happier. It is probably the one upgrade I have done that made a readily noticeable difference.

One really weird thing was that I went from a screaming 15krpm Hitachi drive to this drive, and when I turned my computer on it was almost dead silent. All I heard was the low rumble of my case fan. 🙂

Right now, I don't know if it is really worth the $150 I paid for it (I bought it through Amazon) for only 30GB, but I really don't regret it.

Right now I use the SSD to boot, and I have my MS Office apps running on it. Other than that, I have always installed my games, documents and everything else on separate drives -- everything works perfectly fine.

EDIT: Everything could be installed on the SSD, it shouldn't be a problem as long as you don't fill the drive to the very limits. You should always have some free space or it'll slow down a bit.
 
Originally posted by: F1N3ST
is it possible to say use a SSD for boot, and have my programs on the windows partition, but stored on a different drive? Sounds dumb but it seems like it would be nicer than installing programs on a different drive.

Seagate needs to be RMA'd still -.-
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huh? not sure what you mean here but you can have 2 partitions on a SSD put Windows on one and your apps on another. Also you can have the same 2 partitions and put Windows and apps on the first partition and store data on the second.
 
Uh, Raptors are pretty loud.

Pretty much all 7200rpm drives will be quieter, some more than others. My Samsung F1 is my quietest 7200rpm drive (quieter than my Caviar Black and Seagate 7200.11). My 5400rpm WD10EADS storage drives are the quietest of them all (and not significantly slower than the 7200rpm drives).
 
Originally posted by: Astrallite
Pick up a 120G Vertex for Apps/OS and say a WD Green (5400-7200 variable) drive for storage.
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I can vouch for the WD Green. I have a 1TB 5400rpm drive in my htpc and it is near silent.
 
I am more irritated by the system fan noise (from 2xScythe S-Flex @ 800rpm) and the fan noise/other noise from my Corsair 550VX PSU than the noise that my Samsung Spinpoint T166 320GB 7200rpm HDD emits. It chirps a bit when idle, but it's not irritating nor can I hear it unless I get closer to it. It does have loud enough writes/reads to be heard, but it doesn't SOUND irritating, perhaps because I don't write/read all the time or because it's not in case (I have no case), it's over a piece of foam+lego structure.

But if you have a reasonable amount of money for this, Astrallite's suggestion seems good. Though SSDs will no doubt get better in the future, we are still at the turning point.
 
Get a WD6400AAKS - $60 for quite, fast and reliable storage. A pair of them short stroked in RAID 0 will give your Raptor a run for the money.
 
I'm going to look into this, probably end up with a SSD + 500gb. My noise went down so much since going to Windows 7 RC, partially because Vista defragmented daily I think...
 
Originally posted by: F1N3ST
is it possible to say use a SSD for boot, and have my programs on the windows partition, but stored on a different drive? Sounds dumb but it seems like it would be nicer than installing programs on a different drive.
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Yes. You can create a partition on the second drive, and instead of assigning that partition a drive letter, you can assign it an NTFS mount point.
 
Originally posted by: VaultDweller
Originally posted by: F1N3ST
is it possible to say use a SSD for boot, and have my programs on the windows partition, but stored on a different drive? Sounds dumb but it seems like it would be nicer than installing programs on a different drive.
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Yes. You can create a partition on the second drive, and instead of assigning that partition a drive letter, you can assign it an NTFS mount point.
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Lol, your a good lurker, but how would I do that?
 
Originally posted by: F1N3ST
Originally posted by: VaultDweller
Originally posted by: F1N3ST
is it possible to say use a SSD for boot, and have my programs on the windows partition, but stored on a different drive? Sounds dumb but it seems like it would be nicer than installing programs on a different drive.
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Yes. You can create a partition on the second drive, and instead of assigning that partition a drive letter, you can assign it an NTFS mount point.
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Lol, your a good lurker, but how would I do that?
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From Disk Management, right click any of your hard drives, select Change drive letter and paths..., select Change..., look at the second option on that dialog (Mount in the following empty NTFS folder). You can do this to an existing drive/partition without worry of affecting it as long as you hit Cancel there.

When you format a new drive/partition you'll get the option to either assign a drive letter or mount it in this manner. This means your C:\Whatever actually lives on a different drive/partition.
 
The new Velociraptors are not actually that loud. I've got one in my machine with a WD 2TB, and an older comp with a 74GB Raptor and some IDE drives. The Velociraptor is surprisingly the quietest one. The WD 2TB is one loud sucker when its seeking.
 
saw some recommendations for getting a vertex. i dont have one myself but i do have a 150gb velociraptor, and it's not really THAT loud most of the time. my buddies old 74gb raptor was probably a lot louder. the drive heads are considerably louder than my 7200.10 barracudas (all 3) all are, but the only time they actually make any noise at all are when i am installing apps or playing games, in which case i wear headphones so i cant hear shit except people screaming at me through the door to come out for whatever reason 😀. anyway my point is, my 150gb vraptor isnt honestly big enough, and i only have vista + a few games installed. everquest 2 takes up almost 35gb, which doesnt help. with the OS + drivers and whatever else i have installed in os partition taking up 35gb~, EQ2, and a few FPS i am playing or dont want to uninstall i only have like 35gb free, and once i cut into that much more my drive performance starts to slow down noticably. the 250GB vertex is like $750 last i checked, which gets you great performance and all, but is it really worth it over a 300gb velociraptor for $230 just to be quieter? ultimately the call is up to you though
 
Originally posted by: F1N3ST
Lol, your a good lurker, but how would I do that?
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Actually, I haven't spent the 4+ years since I joined lurking, I just never really came here. I've only recently started coming to the forums to scope out SSD discussions, lol.

Lokutus' directions on how to do this are fine.
I'm not sure off-hand if you can mount a partition in a shell folder (like Program Files), but it's worth a try. If you're going to mount it to a directory that already contains files, I'd move those files over to the new partition first.
 
Originally posted by: VaultDweller
I'm not sure off-hand if you can mount a partition in a shell folder (like Program Files), but it's worth a try. If you're going to mount it to a directory that already contains files, I'd move those files over to the new partition first.
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If you want to move all of Program Files this isn't the way to do it.

You can do some things with the Windows install to configure locations like this, but mucking with it after the fact is a no-go.
 
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