How loud is this drive compared to non-Raid drives?
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The drive is very quiet. I haven't had any issues with noise from my drive.
1739949
Very quiet. Only a light fan noise. i've never even noticed it when editing.
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Hi, Roger. It's crunchy loud...I mean, I'm an audio engineer and I would not have this in the studio when recording. That's how loud the crunching is. I use it as a backup drive though, so no worries there. It's stable but scratchy when reading/writing data.
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I'm going to replace my 500MB 7200rpm hard drive. How will this compare in speed? I'm basically at 90-93% full due to photos and music!
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I always wonder that too with LaCie drives. Most likely 5400 RPM. They don't like to disclose this spec for some reason, but I recall seeing it elsewhere, or asking CS directly. It's for this reason, along with noise, I have not bought a LaCie and use G-Drive's instead.
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It's very quiet. I have two WD Red drives installed and have the unit set to Quiet mode. I never hear any noise from it.
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No, this isn't a RAID (although there is a version of this that does support RAID). I bought it as a replacement for a couple of hard drive docks that were giving me trouble and it worked perfectly and other than Windows having to re-recognize the drives Windows never even made a blip.
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I'm not running it in raid so I can't answer that question, but it is a good hard drive.
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SHR is more flexible, if you want to upgrade to larger drives later. No downside -- you're locked into the technology once you but the DiskStation, so you may was well leverage the proprietary RAID
1363093
They say it is 68 or so dba. I have had quieter and louder. Hope that helps.
317339
Hi,Heat none, noise lets says like a normal hard drive do, a little bit of noise.
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I've used a program called "HWinfo" on this specific external drive and it says it is a Hitachi at 7200RPM's. I recommend the Fantom brand just because of that honestly, Hitachi just doesn't make bad drives. PS. They are also known as HGST and are now owned by WD or Western Digital.
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Absolutely. there are always SOME weird motherboards and some NAS's that don't like certain HDD's, so it isn't guaranteed, but it's a real nice, solid, good working drive. Read some reviews on it. In RAID 0, by the way, you can make up for the 5400 RPM and make these things scream and still have the low heat, low power consumption.
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It's about as loud as a computer fan when loading a disc. Unless you are right next to it, you won't even notice that it's running.
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Its actually not that loud! I did not use this PSU for very long before switching to an XFX PSU which I like better and feel that it is more reliable then the raidmax.
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actually yes, not sure if it is fan or HDD but it is noisy, but as it leaves in my office I do not bother.It may be due to I set it for constant backups....
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I have my EX475 sitting right on my desk. I hear the hard drive once in a while and the fans kick in when I reboot and that is it. My PC is a louder than the Mediasmart unit.
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I ordered the same drive from Amazon earlier this year (order a 500GB, they were out so sent me a 750Gb). Delivery was quick as most things from Amazon are. I installed the HDD in a Dell Opti 760 which I would consider a small desktop. It works fine but it sure seems noisy. Everytime I go to use it, it seems to be crunching away doing something. I plan to replace it when I get the time. No problems with reliability.
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4TB drive is the fastest of the bunch since it has more platters than the 2TB or 1TB version. So if you are looking for the fastest non-SSD drive out there, it would be the 4TB version of the WD Black.