SATA hard disks
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Has anyone seen a comprehensive review of SATA hard disks available?? What companies would users recommend regarding speed / noise etc. I have heard good things about both Seagate and Samsung : does this group agree? Thanks Richard |
By far the best place to find this data is
http://www.storagereview.com All they do drives. JPS "Richard Milser" wrote in message ... Hi Has anyone seen a comprehensive review of SATA hard disks available?? What companies would users recommend regarding speed / noise etc. I have heard good things about both Seagate and Samsung : does this group agree? Thanks Richard |
Thanks jps! Will do my research here.
Richard "jpsga" wrote in message news:6Dmcc.190025$1p.2204802@attbi_s54... By far the best place to find this data is http://www.storagereview.com All they do drives. JPS "Richard Milser" wrote in message ... Hi Has anyone seen a comprehensive review of SATA hard disks available?? What companies would users recommend regarding speed / noise etc. I have heard good things about both Seagate and Samsung : does this group agree? Thanks Richard |
Louise wrote:
Seagates are delightfully quiet (the internal drives). I am extremely sensitive to the high pitched whine that is frequently present - but never with Seagates. I've also had good reliability from them. I concur. |
Hi Richard
Yes you should go with SATA instead of the Parallel ATA.. SATA takes less voltage 2v than the PATA and the SATA cable is thinner, more flexible and better than the ribbon cables of PATA. SATA use serial sigaling while the PATA use parallel signaling. Crosstalk and Electromagnatic interface with SATA is less than the PATA.. 1) Samsung has high seek time and it is higher than what they claim in the manual 2) Maxtor, good and quite but high seek time as well 9.5ms 3) Western is the best choice.. low seek time 5.5ms and quite 4) Seagate!! not sure but I am reading in the internet somone said he has a problem installing SATA and it is not compatiable with PATA. SO I would avoid it http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/24794/ HTH "Richard Milser" wrote in message ... Hi Has anyone seen a comprehensive review of SATA hard disks available?? What companies would users recommend regarding speed / noise etc. I have heard good things about both Seagate and Samsung : does this group agree? Thanks Richard |
Louise wrote:
Seagates are delightfully quiet (the internal drives). I am extremely sensitive to the high pitched whine that is frequently present - but never with Seagates. I've also had good reliability from them. Louise Agree too. Out: Maxtor 80GB In: Seagate7200.7 Barracuda 120g Quiet - yes, very. The Maxtor was ok at first, but was beginning to sound like an old Kelvinator fridge. Install - No surprises, other than it working the first time. Recognized by motherboard, and Norton Ghost. Ghost moved all the Max's data to it. Performance: Better. Next: out with the 120g 5400 rpm Maxtor. -- "A Sound Mind. A Healthy Body. Pick One" Mr. Hedge |
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