GmAz Posted November 28, 2008 Posted November 28, 2008 My main OS drive failed two days ago. I have a temporary drive in right now but now sure how long it will last. Pretty sure I took it out because it was failing, but its better than nothing. Anywho, I would like some suggestions on a SATA3 drive that is fast, but also quiet. I had a 250gb drive and to be honest, thats actually large enough. I have another 250gb drive for all my backup and data storage. Plus, I usually run Ubuntu 8.10 so I don't need a a lot of space. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkilway Posted December 1, 2008 Posted December 1, 2008 I love my Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive. More capacity then what you might be looking for, but it's VERY quiet. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krieg1337 Posted December 1, 2008 Posted December 1, 2008 SSD would be the best like this one, just for the OS though. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820227359 Not sure if that is very great but SSD is really good for OS. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bg8780 Posted December 1, 2008 Posted December 1, 2008 Ive heard many complaints about that OCZ SSD. If i were to jump into that kind of technology right now i would go for the intel SSD's ive heard nothing but good things. As for a HDD i would just go for one of the black caviar series that WD has. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jammin Posted December 1, 2008 Posted December 1, 2008 I love my Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive. More capacity then what you might be looking for, but it's VERY quiet. Yep, supposed to be nice and quiet, as well as fast. I'm not sure of your budget, but if you remove the stupid heatsink, then the VelociRaptor is also very quiet. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GmAz Posted December 3, 2008 Posted December 3, 2008 I love my Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive. More capacity then what you might be looking for, but it's VERY quiet. This may end up being the drive I pick. I decided to take my 2HD, which has my pictures, video, music, etc on it, which is also 250gb and use that as my primary drive. Its a refurb from WD about a year ago, but I want to make absolute sure my data is safe, I can always just redo my OS and what not. And I'm getting really tight on that 250gb too. Thanks for all your replies!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
n4mr3h Posted December 10, 2008 Posted December 10, 2008 I love my Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive. More capacity then what you might be looking for, but it's VERY quiet. I've read about this WD review, and it's good. But I should be patient wait it arrive Indonesia Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IVIYTH0S Posted December 10, 2008 Posted December 10, 2008 this is currently my favorite SSD. I would trust it on the grounds that it is GSkill and I've used nothing but GSkill memory for three laptops that I've had (or worked on) and non have failed yet. They make good memory and are always the ones to beat for price. (though $255 may be out of your range) I think I would have gotten this if my VelociRaptor wasn't 200 dollars way back (and this was probably more expensive) 128gb GSkill SSD I'm actually heavily considering replacing my recently failed laptop harddrive with one of these, I will sure miss the 192gb's less of space but will gladly welcome the assured power savings. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoosty Posted December 11, 2008 Posted December 11, 2008 Check out the Western Digital Caviar Black WD6401AALS 640GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache HDD, it even comes with a 5yr. warranty. Just bought this for a Build I am doing for a friend and it is one of the fastest 7200rpm drives around. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16822136319 :thumbs-up: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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