Big SSD for low noise or HDD?

Wulffz · Jun 17, 2017

Hey everyone,

For my new build I'm tackling my only complaint about my current machine which is noise.

Fan noise isn't such a problem neither is it's temps or the GPU. The only thing that bothers me from time to time is the noise that my HDD makes. It's a Western Digital Blue drive (1Tb @ 7200RPM).

Some say that the noise difference is pretty big between a 5400RPM vs a 7200RPM drive. Is there someone that could speak from experience that this is true or not?

I'm thinking about either going with a 256Gb M.2 nvm drive and one sata 250Gb,
or just the nvm drive and a new 5400RPM HDD.

Greetz.

Supahos · Jun 17, 2017

I'd consider a 500 gb SATA SSD. In Normal tasks they aren't much slower than a 960 Evo and a 500gb 850 Evo isn't much more than a 256gb 960 Evo. All hard drives are somewhat loud.

Supahos · Jun 17, 2017

A second option would be get a 250 gb 850 Evo and a 480-500gb slower SATA SSD SanDisk ultra II I'm looking at you. Should be the same price as your dual 250 setup and give you 750 gb of pretty fast storage with no noise

Lehan123456789 · Jun 17, 2017

Wulffz :

^^ has a good suggestion. You might even be able to stretch for a 1tb ssd, like this one:
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/X3Crxr/mushkin-internal-hard-drive-mknssdre1tb
for ~$250

that would mean a LOT of completely silent, reliable and fast storage!

Wulffz · Jun 17, 2017

Supahos :

True, all harddrives make noise. That's why I'm thinking about going SSD only in this build.

I'll think about that, It's certainly a cheaper sollution.

Wulffz · Jun 17, 2017

Supahos :

I'll look into the Sandisk drives

Thank you very much!

Supahos · Jun 17, 2017

I'll put it this way I have a 2tb wd black hard drive. And a 250gb 850 Evo. I refuse to play any game on my HD. The load times and noise tick me off. So basically I only have 250 gb of storage for anything other than pictures and stuff. The noise when accessessing them also annoys me. My next build will be hard drive less

Supahos · Jun 17, 2017

Just stay away from the SanDisk SSD plus it's slower than a fast hard drive in some tasks. All cacheless ssds (really cheap ones) suffer the same fate.

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