Re: FireWire harddrives
Hi,
Slashdot ran a piece recently about a review that rated the noise levels of a
bunch of IDE drives. Click the older articles link at http://slashdot.org/ and
search for "noise" and you should find it. Also search for "quiet". Making
quieter computers has been discussed fairly regularly on slashdot.
I have a Quantum 10,000 RPM SCSI Ultra160 drive and it's extremely quiet and
runs cool, which is very surprising for a 10,000 RPM drive. It's the VP32210,
not sure what the brand name of that is.
I plan to eventually mod all my computers so they are quieter. I am a big fan
of laptops because they are so quiet. The fan in my compaq presario 1800T only
starts when it gets hot (rarely) and my iBook doesn't have a fan at all.
You are probably better off using more than one hard drive to make all your
space than using a single drive. It will be more expensive, but you will have
less to lose if a drive fails. I think you would do well to get a RAID.
Firewire's being nice for being so flexible and making it easy to attach disks
externally. I have used SCSI drives almost exclusively for years before I
recently got started with firewire for that reason. I never cared much for IDE
drives because they have to be mounted inside the cases and have such unpleasant
cables. Even Ultra160 scsi can be external.
Mike
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