Which harddrive setup would you recommend?

[nmaynan]

I have four harddrive options in front of me. The computer I'm buying will be a home/office work station. I am looking for 1.) proven reliability 2.) speed in bootup and application startup BUT 3.) I want the machine to be quiet--so if a harddrive setup impacts on noise this is an import consideration.

please let me know any experiences you've had

 

[nmaynan]

Option 1: anybody know about increased noise from having two drives? Does this arrangement produce more speed than a single drive?

Option 2: do 10k drives produce significantly more noise than 7.2K? Considering noise is important to avoid, should I avoid 10K rpm?

Option 3: I'll mainly select this option if it's significantly more quiet than options 1 or 2 and more reliable than a SSD (option 4)

Option 4: if reliable and secure in data handling, this would seem to be my best choice. But I'm concerned about some reports I've read of reliability issues.

 

[Aastii]

The Intel will provide less noise than the others because it is solid state, so no moving parts, so silent.

However, because it is for a home/work computer, you don't get much storgae for your money, so to balance it out your first option is best, especially if you put the 2 10k RPM in RAID0 config.

The fans in your system will make more noise than your hard drives just about no matter which you get, so the drive you pick doesn't matter from a noise perspective

 

[nmaynan]

Storage capacity is not important to me. a 60GB drive is more than enough for my needs because I don't store any video files. I routinely only use about 20GB of space. So the SSD is not a problem. I'm only concerned about reliability.

I decided against RAID 0 because of the danger of 1 drive failing ruining both drives. Reliability is more important to me. But what about the drive 1: 10k and drive2: 7.2k. Does this result in noticeable improvement in speed or just test-measured improvement. Will I notice the difference?

 

[DrkS1de0fTh3Moon]

Solid State Baby!

 

[Bodaggit23]

Noise is not normally an issue with hard drives, unless you get a bad one.

If you can afford an Intel X-25, go for it.