Re: 750 GB Drives - Noise and Heat?


"Tom Scales" <tjscales@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:9D4AE178A3764E028D2EEE1FD6CC4098@xxxxxxxx
My XPS 410 has FOUR 750Gb Seagate drives plus one 250Gb WD drive. It is
our media server and is converting to Divx at least 20 out of 24 hours a
day. HEAVY disk activity. I don't have the temp gauge on the drives
right now, but when I did they were running around 40-42 degrees at full
activity.

Fantastic drives. I have a total of six.

BTW the other day I stopped at the loca Office Depot to pick up a few items, and I stopped to look at hard drives to see what they had for a notebook. Lo and Behold they had a Maxtor external USB drive (750gig) for $169.99! That price is cheaper than I've seen any internal 750gig drive for, so I figured what the heck. 'Maybe' it'll have a Seagate SATA drive inside.

Nope. It IS a Seagate drive of course, but it's the IDE version. Still, a 750gig drive for $169.
For now I'm using it as a external drive, but I may remove the drive and mount it in My Dimension 8200 and load my copy of Microsoft Home Server on it.


Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Davis [mailto:please@xxxxxxxxxx]
Posted At: Saturday, July 07, 2007 8:00 PM
Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Conversation: 750 GB Drives - Noise and Heat?
Subject: 750 GB Drives - Noise and Heat?

I'm thinking about adding a 750 GB drive to my XPS410. How would you
describe the noise level of the Seagate and Western Digital 750 GB
drives? Also, do I need to add additional cooling? Tom's Hardware
had this to say about the WD7500AAKS:

"The temperature reading on the top surface of this drive hovered
around an acceptable 118° F (48° C) after several hours of constant
activity, though it's clear that this drive requires active cooling.
In the same situation, four-platter drives like the Barracuda 7200.10
read at nearly 124° F (51° C), and Hitachi's five-platter monster
7K1000 raises the mercury to almost 128° F (53° C). One or more fans,
or a cooling cage, are definitely indicated for any or all of these
drives."

Complete review:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/07/06/record-
making_hard_disk/index.html


.

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