ST32000641AS (7200 rpm, 2TB)
WD2001FASS (7200 rpm, 2TB)
WD20EARS (5400 rpm, 2TB)
My preference: Reliability > Performance > Noise > Temperature
My questions:
1. Are WD's harddrives really more reliable compare to the Seagate ? I have done lots of research through many forums and this seems to be confirmed by the majority. I am still not sure thought. But the WD2001FASS indeed has a gold award on hardware.info so this might be true.
2. Are the modern 5400 rpm harddrives more reliable than the modern 7200 rpm harddrives ? If both HDD’s are made with same technique then its only logic. Somehow I cant find the MTBF of those HDD on WD's website. Can anyone tell me if this is really true? This is the most important thing I want to know.
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9f8fKn40kk
This doesn’t look very promising to me. Window load 2 sec faster, read/write speed only noticeable by opening tons of programs and transfer huge file. Which can also be archieved with more RAM, right? Games would only load few seconds faster but performance stay the same. The performance different is to small to be considers as great sacrifice to reliability(question 2). Can you convince me otherwise?
4. I have a folder with sub-folders which contain more than 5000 images. Every time I tried to open this folder, it always delays ~8 sec. What is the best way to fix this, more rpm or more RAM? My current HDD is a Seagate 7200 250GB.
5. Which one is the loudest and which one is the quietest? Are the different between those noise very big?
6. Can anyone tell me the average temperature of the three HDD's when running? Without cooling.
Thanks for your time!
WD2001FASS (7200 rpm, 2TB)
WD20EARS (5400 rpm, 2TB)
My preference: Reliability > Performance > Noise > Temperature
My questions:
1. Are WD's harddrives really more reliable compare to the Seagate ? I have done lots of research through many forums and this seems to be confirmed by the majority. I am still not sure thought. But the WD2001FASS indeed has a gold award on hardware.info so this might be true.
2. Are the modern 5400 rpm harddrives more reliable than the modern 7200 rpm harddrives ? If both HDD’s are made with same technique then its only logic. Somehow I cant find the MTBF of those HDD on WD's website. Can anyone tell me if this is really true? This is the most important thing I want to know.
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9f8fKn40kk
This doesn’t look very promising to me. Window load 2 sec faster, read/write speed only noticeable by opening tons of programs and transfer huge file. Which can also be archieved with more RAM, right? Games would only load few seconds faster but performance stay the same. The performance different is to small to be considers as great sacrifice to reliability(question 2). Can you convince me otherwise?
4. I have a folder with sub-folders which contain more than 5000 images. Every time I tried to open this folder, it always delays ~8 sec. What is the best way to fix this, more rpm or more RAM? My current HDD is a Seagate 7200 250GB.
5. Which one is the loudest and which one is the quietest? Are the different between those noise very big?
6. Can anyone tell me the average temperature of the three HDD's when running? Without cooling.
Thanks for your time!