Quiet ATA drives?
Anyone have any recommendations?
So far I've been pointed towards the Seagate Barracuda IVs and the Western Digital Caviar lines... but I'm not exactly looking at spending a truckload of money. (I'm in the market for 3 80GB drives that I'll pop into a B/W G3 and two FireWire enclosures.) Any other fluid bearing drives out there besides these?
My Quantum FireBall is loud enough to be heard two rooms away.
I'm not looking for killer speed, since I currently have zero methods for working with video.
D'oh, this probably should have gone into Genius Bar.
[ 07-30-2002: Message edited by: Kickaha ]</p>
So far I've been pointed towards the Seagate Barracuda IVs and the Western Digital Caviar lines... but I'm not exactly looking at spending a truckload of money. (I'm in the market for 3 80GB drives that I'll pop into a B/W G3 and two FireWire enclosures.) Any other fluid bearing drives out there besides these?
My Quantum FireBall is loud enough to be heard two rooms away.
I'm not looking for killer speed, since I currently have zero methods for working with video.
D'oh, this probably should have gone into Genius Bar.
[ 07-30-2002: Message edited by: Kickaha ]</p>
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<strong>The Barracuda ATA V series drives should be out now or very soon as well...</strong><hr></blockquote>
And the advantage over the IV would be... ?
I'm still a grad student - this drive bundle is The Big Computer Purchase for the summer. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
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And the advantage over the IV would be... ?
I'm still a grad student - this drive bundle is The Big Computer Purchase for the summer. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>
60 GB per platter...I imagine it's easier to make drives quieter/lighter with fewer platters.
Seagate also claims the following:
"Barracuda ATA V has the world's fastest PC hard drive internal transfer rate at up to 570 Mbits per second, and a 9-msec seek time."
I have them mirrored as an always-on backup plan. Anyone that can afford 2 drives I would recommend it!
Now for part 2:
My machine is a Rev A B/W G3 - the one with the funky ATA chain that shows data corruption on some drives.
So, I'm planning on putting one of these on an internal IDE card, and two in FireWire enclosures.
Which brings me to questions 2 & 3:
Any recommendations on ATA PCI cards, or on *quiet* FireWire enclosures? Makes no sense to put ultra quiet drives in noisy fan enclosures...
[ 07-31-2002: Message edited by: Kickaha ]</p>
You can't really go wrong with SIIG or Sonnet.
As for enclosures. You probably don't need an enclosure with a fan, which eliminates most 5.25" sized enclosures.
The 3.5" enclosures are expensive though, heh.
<a href="http://eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_Item.cfm?ID=4764&Item=OWCMEFWU2" target="_blank">http://eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_Item.cfm?ID=4764&Item=OWCMEFWU2</a>
The Acard 6280M looks good, but the benchmarks I've seen have it slower than a slightly cheaper Sonnet ATA/100. Hmmm.
Grrr. Anyone know where I can pick up one of these for, say, $50? <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
Oh, and Eugene - if you go for the non USB2.0 version of that enclosure, it's quite a bit cheaper...
edit:
Well, I found the Acard 6280M at other world computing for $88, vs $99 for the Sonnet. Ah, and the Sonnet doesn't seem to support ATAPI, while the Acard does. That settles it. Now to find it *cheaper*...
Newegg.com does indeed have the Seagate Barracuda IV drives for $103 each.
Now for the enclosures: the Elite non-USB2.0 are $95 each. I've seen some way cheaper enclosures, but none that were fanless. Anyone?
Total so far: $587
Well, after searching for a while, those really were pretty darned good prices, and I've been up since 9am... yesterday. So I did it. Thanks for the input folks!
[ 08-01-2002: Message edited by: Kickaha ]</p>
Also, you could probably just buy the 5.25 inch Mercury or like product from somewhere else and unplug/remove the fan.
Heh, actually, that sounds like a good idea. I'll probably do that with my ADS Pyros.