Hard Drive Wanted

[digitaldiscipline]

Seems that the ailings on K's rig are the fault of the impending doom of her boot drive. Since the secondary HDD is also semi-elderly, I'd rather just stuff a single drive in there and be done with it.

So: ~60GB, relatively inexpensive, and quiet are what i'm looking for. I'd normally just jump right to one of the WDD 80GB 8MB "SE" drives, but they're a little noisier than what her near-silent system warrants [I've got a pair in my box, and their whine is the main note it emits]. Recommendations for a good 5400rpm unit?

Comments

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

Actually the Hitachi Deskstars are pretty quiet these days, IMO. I can't hear it over the older Seagate.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

those aren't the newest iteration of the old IBM "what do you mean, 10,000 MTBF isn't sufficient?" Deathstars, are they?

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

800,000 Hrs, lately.

Part of the bad rap those got seems to have come from Gateway using them in a lot of 2002 and 2003 systems with some crap mobos that actually ended up frying the controller on the drive. It killed a lot of drives under warranty and drove up the return rates, but *most* of them came out of Gateway boxes. The same flaw also killed other manufacturer's drives, but unless the *user* replaced the drive with something else rather than getting a warranty replacement, they'd never learn that the flaw was in the mobo rather than the drive.

[ivy]

[wishes she were hardware geek enough to have a useful suggestion]

[anmorata.livejournal.com]

Hi Rafe,

It's Callie. :) We met in passing several times over the weekend here in Chicago (we took a pic with Geekers on Friday night in the brief time that I was in the Suite of D00M), but due to some rather unfortunate schedule issues on my part, I really didn't get to hang out with your group nearly as much as I would've liked. I've added you to my friends list, I hope that's okay. :) Please extend my greetings to K as well.. I believe I may have met her in passing on Friday but I'm really not quite sure if I did or not (so many people!). Hope you guys are still having fun down at the Congress, and have a safe trip home.

-Callie

[rachellll.livejournal.com]

Hey! Now that we've finally met (and since I've quasi agreed to vote for you in the November Election), I figured on adding you to ye olde friends list. Margaret introduced us on Saturday morning, I believe :-) So, howdy!