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Skith · 31-05-2005

If you are looking for a good drive, I would highly recommend samsung - www.newegg.com carries them. They run very cool and quiet.

Western Digital drives (and probably maxtor, and other modern 7200RPM) drives can get very hot, good ventilation for cooling is a must. I don't think I would ever run a WD drive without some kind of air flow (case fan or hd cooler).

If I recall, seagate and samsung are two of the coolest and quietest drive makers. Heat kills hard drives. Samsung drives also carry a 3 year warranty.

Without active airflow, my 160GB WD will get almost to hot to touch!

31-05-2005	#8 (permalink)
Skith CD Freaks Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: MI Posts: 318	Re: hardware performance If you are looking for a good drive, I would highly recommend samsung - www.newegg.com carries them. They run very cool and quiet. Western Digital drives (and probably maxtor, and other modern 7200RPM) drives can get very hot, good ventilation for cooling is a must. I don't think I would ever run a WD drive without some kind of air flow (case fan or hd cooler). If I recall, seagate and samsung are two of the coolest and quietest drive makers. Heat kills hard drives. Samsung drives also carry a 3 year warranty. Without active airflow, my 160GB WD will get almost to hot to touch! __________________ It is said that dog is man's best friend. In truth, man is dog's best slave, at least that is what my dogs think. PSU: Antec True 480W Chips'n'Boards: AMD Athlon XP 1900; Abit NFS-7 v2.0; 2x1GB OCZ PC3200; Nvidia GeForce4 Ti4400 vivo; Sound Blaster Audigy 2; Adaptec 19160N SCSI Optical Drives:Plextor 712A (fw 1.07); NEC 3500A (fw LD 2.TD) HDDs: Atlas V 16GB; Samsung 160GB SATA w/8MB cache; Western Digital 320GB SATA w/8MB cache; Western Digital 160GB w/8MB cache (external via firewire - AMS Venus DS3 3.5" USB/Firewire combo enclosure) Printer & Scanner: Espon Stylus Photo 1280 Epson Perfection 2450 PHOTO