WD 640GB Hard Drive to replace my Samsung

[zod96]

I was thinking about getting the WD 640 to replace my samsung spinpoint T drive. I ran HDtach and here's what I got Ramdon Access 18.8 and average read was 66.3 megs and burst speed was 212 megs. I have no idea if that's good or bad. But would the WD 640 be better than that? And would it be as quiet or quieter than my samsung drive..

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: zod96
But would the WD 640 be better than that?

Yes, quite a bit faster.

And would it be as quiet or quieter than my samsung drive..

I have no idea, but the people who've bought them say they're quiet. Of course, quiet is subjective. What's quiet to me may be unbearably loud to you.

 

[n7]

WD 640 GB = very good
Samsung 1 TB F1 = best (slightly better)

 

[zod96]

Yeah is most review the F1 beat the 640 but just barely. And in power usage and noise the wd 640 was better....

 

[A554SS1N]

Slight thread hijack - I'm considering getting the 640GB WD drive too, mainly because I'm running out of space of my primary drive (a maxtor 160GB IDE) - I assume this WD drive would be a little faster, and would it be ok to make one big partition? I've already prtition my original drive too much and have too many drive letters, so Ideally I'd want to keep everything under one partition this time Also, I'd like to know if it's likely the BIOS of my AM2 Gigabyte motherboard (as a guess) is likely just going to pick it up ok and not mess up any boot order (i.e. it continues to bought off my IDE as normal and I can just go into windows and format it)? Another (final) question is that If I already appiled the patches (SP2 and a big driver enabler registry hack) for my current 160GB drive to go over 127GB, then I assume there would be no such issue with the 'new' drive - and would I need any SATA drivers or does SP2 have some default driver that'd probably be ok? Would my motherboard likely be new enough to just emulate IDE on the SATA drive even?

Cheers for any info on my very messy posting

 

[A554SS1N]

*Bump* (before the thread goes off the page)

 

[Old Hippie]

and would it be ok to make one big partition?

Absolutely. People seem to go crazy on partitions. Just use folders or make one partition for your OS and programs, and the rest for storage. That makes it easy to re-image the OS...especially for us who seem to screw it up....a LOT! :laugh:

Also, I'd like to know if it's likely the BIOS of my AM2 Gigabyte motherboard (as a guess) is likely just going to pick it up ok and not mess up any boot order (i.e. it continues to bought off my IDE as normal and I can just go into windows and format it

You should be OK.

then I assume there would be no such issue with the 'new' drive - and would I need any SATA drivers or does SP2 have some default driver that'd probably be ok? Would my motherboard likely be new enough to just emulate IDE on the SATA drive even?

You should be good to go.

Good Luck!

 

[A554SS1N]

Thanks for the info and for taking the time to reply

 

[kkk60091]

wd640 is faster than hd501lj, but also much hotter.

right next to each other in p180b v2

hd501lj 30C
hd103uj 36c
wd6400aaks 42c

remove wd640, hd103uj will around 30C, same as hd501lj...

hd103uj is kind of picky about sata port, same issue with 3 intel boards.

 

[zod96]

Got the WD 640 installed. Yes its faster and yes its quieter than my samsung. And you are right it is hotter than the samsung though. My samsung was always about 32C the WD is about 36C on my system...