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7200rpm Hard Drive Upgrade: Hitachi or Seagate?
Im currently looking into buying a customized w3j and was wondering if it would make any difference if i picked the 7200 rpm seagate over the hitachi drive or vice versa? Im primarily concerned with heat/noise issues. Any performance discrepancies would also be interesting to note. I would much appreciate some help on this matter.
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This guide should answer your questions.
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seagate's are generally quieter and cooler whereas the hitachi is faster
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Hitachi all the way...
Read this article:
http://www.storagereview.com/article...otebook_1.html
The Hitachi:
Better access time
Better transfer rates
Better Drivemark 2006 scores
Better gaming
Is quieter
Lower operating power
The only thing the Seagate has going for it is lower startup (peak) power dissipation.
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on a 5400rpm level I was surprised that my hitachi in my A8jm ran quieter and cooler than my seagate!!! This is due to the fact that hitachi hard drive consumes a bit less power. Hopefully this would be the same at the 7200rpm level.
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I've always used Seagate in my PC, but if you don't mind the 3 year warranty then it doesn't look like a bad deal. However, I haven't heard much about Hitachi.
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I chose Seagate because more sources said it ran cooler than the Hitachi (although slightly slower too).
I saw the Storage Review article that FlipTwisteR mentioned, but I wasn't sure how relevant that was because it compares the Momentus 7200.1, and Seagate currently has the 7200.2 available for SATA. Most reviews I could find of the 7200.2 seemed to indicate it was cooler than the Hitachi.
Also, I ran into a lot of conflicting information about the heat output of the SATA vs. PATA versions of drives. Some reviews seemed to show that the SATA Seagate runs much hotter, which is strange. I'm not sure how that effects the comparison.
Anyway, I'm personally looking forward to Seagate releasing an SATA 5400.3 perpendicular recording drive. All the reviews say that the ATA version is nearly as fast as a 7200rpm, runs very cool, and uses very little battery.
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"Perpendicular Recording"
What special things does that do? And compared to Hitachi's technology is it all nearly the same?
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I'm not up on all the tech details, but this article seems to be a pretty good explanation of perpendicular recording:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/sto...tus-54003.html
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Please note that the only benefit of perpendicular recording is that it breaks the 120gb limit. There are no performance gains.