Which is more silent and less vibration

[remos2010]

Hello guys ,
Which is more silent and less vibration :
WD blue 1 tb with 7200 rpm
Or
WD blue 2 tb with 5400 rpm

Please help.

 

[Eximo]

About the same really. If you can detect the 'vibration' of a drive, something is wrong. More importantly it comes down to how many platters the drive has. More platters mean more read/write heads and more mass in the swing arm. Make the motor work a little harder. These days it would be a toss-up whether that would be a single or dual platter drive. Depends on the exact model. 1TB is most likely a single platter.

Hard drives usually start out quite silent and get louder over time. It also depends on disk fragmentation and how much data throughput you are expecting. A lot of fragmentation of the data will make the read/write arm have to swing over the whole drive to retrieve data. (Modern OS tend to handle this during idle times)

If you want complete, at least to human hearing, silence, then an SSD would be preferable.

 

[Solandri]

Almost definitely the 5400 RPM drive will be quieter and have less vibration.

If you're worried about poor performance from the 5400 RPM drive, it really depends on the data density of the platters. Yes the 7200 RPM drive spins 33% faster. But if the data density on the 5400 RPM platter is 50% higher, then it's actually going to read data faster than the 7200 RPM drive. The only place where the 7200 RPM drive always has an advantage is random access speeds - it can on average locate any small file 33% faster.

So if you know what specific drives you're considering, look them up in the platter capacity database and do a little math to figure out what your real performance difference is going to be. Don't just assume 7200 RPM = 33% faster than 5400 RPM.

http://rml527.blogspot.com/2010/10/hdd-platter-database-western-digital-35_26.html

 

[jsmithepa]

For mechanical drives, a 5400 2.5" drive is the quietest, that's why it's used in laptops, you wouldn't want your palms vibrating while typing. For 3.5", as already mentioned, DEPENDS. Sorry no yes/no answer. You wanna be sure and need the performance, SSD, DONE.

 

[remos2010]

Thanks guys for the answers ,
May this help , the 2 models are :
Western Digital (WD) Blue WD20EZRZ 2TB SATA 6.0Gb/s HDD
Western Digital (WD) Caviar BLUE WD10EZEX 1TB SATA 6Gb/s

 

[popatim]

In my system the Toshiba 3tb is the quietest drive I have compared to Samsung F3's, Hitachi 7200rpm 1tb, and WD Black 1tb.