Hard Drives Evaluated for Noise, Heat and Performance

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Hard Drives Evaluated for Noise, Heat and Performance

Posted by michael on Tuesday October 1, 2002 @06:51AM from the burning-issues dept.

Sander Sassen writes "Ever wondered what harddisks offer the best combination of performance and low noise? Hardware Analysis evaluates all recent 5400 and 7200-rpm harddisks and focuses on noise, heat production and overall performance. Their results show that 7200-rpm spindle speed is no guarantee for high-performance and that low-noise and high-performance is not an impossible combination with some harddisks."

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High-performance drives by bytesmythe · 2002-10-01 06:56 · Score: 2, Funny

Good thing they did that report so they know what to replace their current drives with when we get done burning all their motors up.

I'll bet that server is making some noise right now. WHHHHHHHRRRRRRR!!! *snap, crackle, pop*

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Re:Wow! by BLAG-blast · 2002-10-01 07:04 · Score: 2, Funny

Fastest. Slashdotting. Ever.
Yeah, imagine the sound of all the hard drive chirps as 100,000 geeks longing for quieter hard drives click on the link...
Maybe tomorrow then....
PS: does anybody know if they cover laptop harddrives as well?

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Obligatory SlashDotted Comment... by suss · 2002-10-01 07:08 · Score: 4, Funny

I wonder what their server's harddisk temperature is right now... did they actually post this to slashdot on purpose?
Re:I have only one thing to say... by Soko · 2002-10-01 07:14 · Score: 4, Funny

What did you say??? I can't hear you with all my disks spun up.

What about damned limes???? Death of information on no ice? Hunh??

Please repeat, and this time SPEAK LOUDER, PLEASE!!!

Soko

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Re:On the other hand. by scotch · 2002-10-01 07:30 · Score: 3, Funny

Oh look, a disagreement between a couple anonymous cowards - wow, this is really getting exciting!!!

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Re:Ok, here's a question. by Cervantes · 2002-10-01 07:38 · Score: 2, Funny

Don't complain. I remember back in the day (well, ok, more like the day after the day... after all, the day goes back sooo far....) when I'd use that load time as an indication that a big bad mob just got loaded or activated... the PC would slow down, and I'd either duck down or backpedal as a matter of instinct... Thats one of the little things that gets lost when we upgrade to big bad hax0r boxXxen, as the kiddies say these days.

Course, these days I still do that as instinct in games, even though nowadays it's normally one of my background programs doing something. I get nailed for it on LAN parties, as people figured out they just had to start massive network activity on my PC to get me to turn back and hide behind a corner... normally when they were waiting there for me...

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I long for the days.... by d3vpsaux · 2002-10-01 08:02 · Score: 2, Funny

....when the sounds of IBM's 20MB drive reading or writing could be felt in your teeth...

Ahh, those were the days.
Re: isn't noise irrelevant? by Antity · 2002-10-01 08:49 · Score: 3, Funny

I'm sleeping on top of my computer (bed over desk) with the PC sitting on the desk (Bigtower). Fans, IBM 40 gig, Maxtor 80 gig, acoustics management turned off. Never experienced any problems to sleep.

Your mileage may vary, of course. :-)

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