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So the new Western Digital 2TB hard drive works great as my main drive, but it's very noisy when it's working. I put it inside a small form factor Dell I had lying around, and it was quiet. Why would it be loud in my new Dell but quiet in my old one???
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05-03-2016, 01:08 PM | #25 | |
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2) Absolutely. An SSD is the best bang for the buck upgrade you can do for a PC. I would suggest a good size SSD (about 250gb - 500gb) for applications and a large HDD for your files (photos, videos, and RAW files). 3) Wattage wise, your PSU should be enough since a 450Watt should be enough to power an i7 with a GTX970. The only obstacle you'll run into is whether or not the PSU will have the necessary 6 or 8 pin PCI-E power cables that the card will require. If needed, you could buy a 4-pin molex to 6 or 8 pin adapter to make the card work. SATA III is backwards compatible with SATA II so it shouldn't cause any issues. What kind of noise is it making? Hard Disk Drives do make a bit of noise, especially when they're spinning up to perform a read or write operation. Lack of sound or vibration dampening in the computer case can make this noise more audible. If it's a clicking noise, that's bad news as it's a sign that the drive is starting to die. |
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05-03-2016, 01:38 PM | #26 | |
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I'm contemplating SSD, but I run my NVR software on the same machine and am afraid that it would prematurely wear out the SSD. Problem is that the NVR writes all the TMP files to the drive where the application is running off first, before storing all the video files on a separate hard drive. Something to think about for now, until the software has the ability to move the TMP folder onto another drive. As far as the video card is concerned, I might stick with a GTX 960. I don't even play games, so I should probably suffice. |
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05-03-2016, 01:47 PM | #28 |
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Ahh okay. That's good news. Glad to hear that you're happy with the new machine.
Would it be possible install the operating system and your video and photo software on SSD but install the NVR software on a different drive or does the software require that you install it on the same drive as the operating system? Absolutely, the 960 is plenty even for gaming. |
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05-03-2016, 08:19 PM | #29 |
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I'm at a loss here. Added a second hard drive to my PC today. It used to be in my old PC, and it's a Western Digital Black 1TB drive. This thing was always quiet as a mouse. Now that it's in my new PC, it's suddenly LOUD. Just like the 2TB Western Digital Black drive I have in there. In another older PC, nice and quiet. In my new PC, quite loud.
I don't get it. Are we 100% sure it doesn't have anything to do with SATA II vs. SATA III? |
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05-03-2016, 10:19 PM | #30 |
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Positive.
The reasons I can think of off the top of my head to explain the sudden increase in noise is that the vibrations from the hard drive is causing the entire case to resonate and amplify the noise or the new case is much thinner than the old case so it doesn't do as good of a job to dampen the noise. How is the drive installed in the case? Is it screwed directly to metal? Are there any any physical differences in construction between the new and old case? Does the new one feel thinner than the old? Last edited by Banana Hammock; 05-03-2016 at 10:25 PM.. |
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Damn it. That riles me. You'd think newer = better. |
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05-03-2016, 11:08 PM | #32 |
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Yeah, newer cases, especially the ones you get from companies like Dell are made with thinner gauge sheets of aluminum and it's really a case (no pun intended) of "they don't make them like they used to".
If you look on the inside of the old hard drive caddies, there should be some rubber grommets where the drives are held in by. You can try to replicate that in the new case with some rubber washers to see if that helps. The goal is to put something (preferably rubber) between the hard drive and the case to dampen the vibrations. If that's not possible and the noise is really bothering you, there are dampening mounts you can buy that lets you install the hard drive into a 5.25" drive bays. Something like this http://www.performance-pcs.com/mitro...dampeners.html |
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Questions in regards to SSD. I currently have a 2TB WD Black boot drive, and another secondary 1TB WD Black boot drive.
My case three 3.5" bays, plus a slot for an M.2 drive. 1) Does it make more sense to use a Corsair 2.5" to 3.5" adapter that fits two 2.5" SSD drives? Or use the M.2 slot? 2) Is M.2 faster/slower/equal compared to a regular SATA III slot? 3) If SATA III tops out at 600MB/s, what is the point of buying anything better than the 850 EVO drives? I see that the 960 Pro and Evo are much faster, but how can SATA III take advantage of that? |
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Not sure what your budget is for a possible M.2 drive which would dictate the capacity of it. I guess you could still use the 256MB SSD drive as additional storage. My ASUS motherboard allows me to use an SSD as a disk cache. But I don't see a need for it right now. I have a 512MB Samsung 840 EVO as the OS drive and the aforementioned Intel P3608 NVMe 1.6TB NVMe drive where I store all my gaming files on....or any application/data which I want better I/O performance. Adding the 256MB Samsung 840 EVO SSD I also have laying around as a disk cache probably won't help and I would venture actually hurt performance with the setup I have. As I come into these high performance SSDs, I'm finding I have more and more slower SSDs that are just sitting around. I hate to get rid of them but I can't use them in any other systems I have as they're just too slow now. I know tough problem to have....#firstworldproblems. |
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M.2 are definitely worth it every penny IMO. My boot up takes around 5-7 seconds. If you're coming from regular hard drives you'll probably fall out of your chair because of how much faster it is too.
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They dropped me two of the 1.6TB P3608 drives and two of the 2TB P3700s. Micron has been doing the same. They dropped me their 3.2TB 9100 series NVMe drives in both PCIe and 2.5" U.2 form factors. If you haven't seen it yet, look for my thread about fun with SSDs in this subforum. I did a test with I think either 5 or 6 Micron DC630 1.92TB 12Gb SAS drives in a Windows Storage Spaces configuration. It's pretty sick. ETA: Just thought of something I might try. Putting some of the NVMe SSDs I have on hand into a Storage Spaces setup to see how fast that configuration is. Last edited by zx10guy; 01-10-2017 at 04:27 PM.. |
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