Signal wrote:
"Keith G" wrote:

"Signal" wrote in message
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"Keith G" wrote:

Hmm, the only other HDD I've had go tits-up (on its own) in the past
was
a 'Deskstar' when they were branded IBM
75GXP or same series??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitachi_Deskstar


Absolutely no idea now, but I didn't know they'd made it into the
Wikipeedier!

I am now in receipt of a 40 and an 80 Gig drive from my son that have
both been sidelined as 'suspect' (both Seagate) which might be a good
way to go if I'm going to have to pull the drives to get recordings off
them - 'one on and one in the wash' as it were! We'll see....


Good luck with that. If you do find you need a new drive, I can
recommend the Seagate Barracuda drives with the fluid bearing.. they
are very quiet indeed.


I've got a 320GB Barracuda with the fluid bearing - pretty noisy (and
hot). I read up on it a while ago - something to do with their country
of manufacture. The 500GB Samsung I bought recently is very quiet - but
not as quiet as all the iMac-installed HDs I've come across. Whatever
the make (usually WD) they're just about silent.