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    Hard Drive Choices: Hitachi vs Fujitsu, vs Seagate

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by FrozenDarkness, Sep 23, 2008.

  1. FrozenDarkness

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    Okay so I have a 160GB 7200RPM with Free Fall Sensor harddrive and the unstoppable clicking of my Seagate hard drive is driving me nuts. so I have three choices:

    I have my 160GB Hitachi 7200 RPM Hardderive from my old system that i can strip off before is end back to dell. This hd does not have free fall sensor.

    They are sending me a Fujitsu 160GB 7200 RPM one that has FFS.

    What to do?
     
    FrozenDarkness, Sep 23, 2008
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    btw: the reason the hitachi one is good is because it's silent as **** great drive
     
    FrozenDarkness, Sep 23, 2008
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    The hitachi one isn't on there :O
     
    FrozenDarkness, Sep 23, 2008
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    ummm, how do check what type my hard drive is? i know its in the device manager under hardware id, but there are too many numbers which i dont understand
     
    agent_07, Sep 24, 2008
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    my mate has the fujitsu 160gb HD and its completely silent - and runs fairly cool.. cooler and quiter than my 200gb seagate.
     
    Adrian_Stanford, Sep 24, 2008
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    You can avoid the clicking in several ways: NHC, HD Tune Pro, or in the BIOS. I'm no expert in this, you'll have to do some research.

    If you have the Seagate 7200.3 I would not return it, it's very fast. If it is the 7200.2 go for another drive.

    The free version of HD Tune will tell you.
     
    Phil, Sep 24, 2008
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    i have the 7200.3, but the problem is that I tried, NHC and the bios and the clicking would not stop, it just slowed down and is quieter.
     
    FrozenDarkness, Sep 24, 2008
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    Here's a solution posted by Prema:

     
    Phil, Sep 25, 2008
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    I used HDparm, and it doens't work. However. I did use HDtune to test the speed and realize how much faster Seagate is compared to the others and that had me sold :)
     
    FrozenDarkness, Sep 25, 2008
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