Cory Petkovsek wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 08:18:26AM -0700, Mr O wrote: > > Samsung's are sloooow. For performance in an IDE drive you'll > > want an 8mb cache Maxtor or Seagate. > How about the quietest drives? I've heard mention of seagates's > baracudas with "liquid ball bearing" technology to make them quiet.
For complete information, check out the reviews at www.storagereview.com. The short answer is that Seagate's old Barracude IV is very quiet, and their new drives are still good. Western Digital, especially the JB "Special Edition" drives are awful. The rest fall somewhere in between. I have three JB drives in my office (out of a total of ten in two PCs and three TiVos), but they're rubber-mounted, inside closed cases, down on the carpeted floor, so they're not intolerable. One of the TiVos is louder (it's on a metal shelf, and it's making the shelf resonate). I've stopped running [EMAIL PROTECTED], though, because of the noise. Busy CPU hotter than idle CPU, makes variable speed fan run faster and noisier. Busy CPU also heats up the office worse in the summer. -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
