[mythtv-users] Fast Quiet Sata drive?

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Tue Mar 15 14:28:08 UTC 2011


On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Ken Mandelberg <km at mathcs.emory.edu> wrote:
> Right now I'm running an Hitachi 2TB drive ( Deskstar 7K2000
> HDS722020ALA330) over usb on my living room backend/frontend. This is a
> really noisy drive.
>
> I would like to replace it with something quieter, but I do record as
> many as 4 HD Mpg streams at once, and can't afford to lose much performance.
>
> Any suggestion on a 2TB drive that would be significantly quieter but
> still have sufficient performance?
>

Samsung F4 or Hitachi 5K3000. They both spin at 5400 RPM instead of
7200 so they will not make as much noise. They also have only 3
platters.

John


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