Silent HD

[xax]

What's the best choice when it comes to hard disk silent/performance? Samsung?

 

[Blain]

Most HDs have their time in the sun as far as quiet performance goes. But over time the Samsung drives tend to be the quietest. Yes, you do give up a slight performance edge.
But they run cool & quiet. :laugh:

 

[Netu]

I've heard rumor that http://www.newegg.com/Product/...p?item=N82E16822148140 is really close to being silent. It does have pops on start up, but unless you have some sort of mouse infestation that only attack you upon noise, I think you'll be fine. ;-)

I, too, have heard Samsung have some -fantastic- quietness to them; however if you are planning on writing, re-writing, deleting, corrupting, and doing all those wonderful things that everyone else does to their files the performance downfall may just be too great of a factor. However, http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16822152052 is a good choice if you do opt for Samsung. I actually haven't heard too many bad reviews at all on this hard drive. As a matter of fact, I don't even see (from just googling it, and reading Newegg) any, if there are any!, complaints regarding slowness, etc.

I bet anything at 7200RPMs and higher will be fine... I mean, come on...that's so fast, how -could- it be loud or lack performance? XD

I hope I helped, more than I hurt! ;-D

 

[xax]

Blain, you are right, the Samsung drives are quiet and run much cooler than other drives.
Netu, thanks for the links, I will check them out.

 

[robmurphy]

There was a review of the 500 GB T166 Samsung drive on Anandtech recently. See:

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3031

 

[Enlightenment]

Buy the new Samsung S250 if you want silence. You won't be dissappointed.