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which hard drive?

  • 13-08-2003 5:50pm
    #1
    whosurpaddy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,718 ✭✭✭


    cant decide between this western digital and this seagate

    there both 120g with 8mb

    main factors are speed noise and reliability (it wont go tits up on me).

    I was gonna go for the western digi one until i saw that the sound emission was 39 dBA which seems very loud for a hard drive.

    opinions ?


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  • #2
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Myself and one of the lads in the house have the Western Digital and it's not exactly noisy. Can't hear it over the fan noise tbh. When you think that the GeForce FX had some like a 96dB fan on it, and sound is expotential, 39dB isn't loud


  • #3
    whosurpaddy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,718 ✭✭✭whosurpaddy


    thats true, but i have a very quiet rig atm & about the noisiest thing currently is an old hard drive, so the last thing i want is a nother noisy one, hence noise being a big factor in my decision.

    cheers for the info


  • #4
    BigEejit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,739 ✭✭✭BigEejit


    I think that the seagate drive that I have is the same as the one you linked to ...except mine has a SATA interface ... it is the quitest HD I've come across ... VERY quiet ... happy customer

    [edit]
    I just checked, and your drives is the PATA version of the same drive ...
    [/edit]


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