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I need to upgrade my Hard Drive pretty soon and am interested in the Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 250Gb drive. Can anyone tell me if these are quiet? Apart from size, noise is the main issue in deciding what HDD to go for.
Thanks for your help
Thanks for your help
Ok, thanks.
It's like a bigger version of mine. So it should rock.
To be honest, SATA isn't a big deal. The IDE and SATA drives are identical apart from the connector and so hence IDE has a slightly slower data transfer rate. But it isn't something I've ever actually noticed.
I only really bought SATA because it was a new top of the range system. In hind sight it wasn't really worth it.
But sure, all the Diamondmax Plus 9 drives will be great. Quiet Drive was the thing I was thinking of incidentally.
If you do go for SATA and are planning on installing windows on it bear in mind you will need to load drivers during installation, at the point where it asks if you need to load any SCSI drivers.
Otherwise it won't recognise the drive. Took me a bit to figure that out.
To be honest, SATA isn't a big deal. The IDE and SATA drives are identical apart from the connector and so hence IDE has a slightly slower data transfer rate. But it isn't something I've ever actually noticed.
I only really bought SATA because it was a new top of the range system. In hind sight it wasn't really worth it.
But sure, all the Diamondmax Plus 9 drives will be great. Quiet Drive was the thing I was thinking of incidentally.
If you do go for SATA and are planning on installing windows on it bear in mind you will need to load drivers during installation, at the point where it asks if you need to load any SCSI drivers.
Otherwise it won't recognise the drive. Took me a bit to figure that out.
http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/product.php?view=6233
^That any good? Looks it, but I'd appreciate a true pro's opinion...
^That any good? Looks it, but I'd appreciate a true pro's opinion...
Thanks, by the way.
I thought about going for SATA, but this drive is E-IDE. I don't know anymore! I can't even have two drives (I don't think) as my PC is a Shuttle!
SATA may be the way to go though, we'll see.
SATA may be the way to go though, we'll see.
I have the 160 Gb SATA version and it is very quiet. If you read the specification you'll see that it has some sort of technology built in for less acoustic interference or something like that.
Great drives.
Great drives.
I need to upgrade my Hard Drive pretty soon and am interested in the Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 250Gb drive. Can anyone tell me if these are quiet? Apart from size, noise is the main issue in deciding what HDD to go for.
Thanks for your help
Thanks for your help