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Cool running 7200rpm hard drive?

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NordicNINE

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I'm looking for the coolest running 7200rpm I can find for a small quiet custom acrylic PC that I'm building.

What's the best choice?

Thanks.
 
The Seagate Barracuda V's are known to be quiet, which is what you want in your "small quiet custom acrylic PC." I'm not sure about cool running.
 
Cool running and 7200 RPM are kind of mutually exclusive, you can have one, but not the other. Anything spinning at 7200 RPM is going to making a lot more heat than any 5400 RPM drive.

If you want quiet and cool runing, you'd better start looking at 5400 RPM drives.

As for quiet and 7200 RPM, the Seagates are very good.

I think Maxtor has a line of "Quiet" 7200 RPM drives, but what they have done is slow down the drive heads... Makes for a quiet drive, but the search times are really high.

 
I have a Seagate IV & a WD SE and both run a bit warm. I'd say the WD is cooler running though.

I guess I might have to go 5400rpm. I haven't had a 5400rpm in years.
The density is getting pretty high, so speed probably isn't too bad.

I'm thinking of maybe going 2.5" too, so 5400rpm might even be pushing it. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: NordicNINE
I have a Seagate IV & a WD SE and both run a bit warm. I'd say the WD is cooler running though.

I guess I might have to go 5400rpm. I haven't had a 5400rpm in years.
The density is getting pretty high, so speed probably isn't too bad.

I'm thinking of maybe going 2.5" too, so 5400rpm might even be pushing it. 🙂
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Someone has a lot of money to blow.
 
The Barracuda IV is actually a bit cooler than the V, 19.3C for the IV and 19.9 for the V according to storagereview.com's tests (numbers taken from the Barracuda V ATA review). Both are some of the coolest running 7200rpm drives though and should fit your needs.
 
I wish.....

Those hard drives are in other PC's.

I have 4 PC's. One for kids, one for me, one for wife, one is the server (that one has three drives (one for OS/programs and two in RAID 0 for data)
 
Even though the Barracuda IV does get a little warm, it needs just a little bit of air circulating for cooling. If you are that worried about heat and since you are doing this yourself, just build it an enclosure that both absorbs the vibrations and the heat. There is an article about a homemade one, I don't have the link, maybe someone else can help with that.
 
I built a small book PC and had the same issue. I was willing to settle for 5400 rpm, so I stepped down to the Seagate U6 which runs very cool.
 
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