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| DeLuSioNal29:
No need to open it. The platter portion remains sealed. You need to simply swap the exposed circuit board on the back of the HDD. |
| Haze:
the slower spinning drives are absolutely fine for MAME, and will run significantly cooler. lower temperatures = longer life too. The 1-1.5TB Seagates were easily the worst of the bunch for running hot, I've had several and eventually gave up getting them replaced, even with cooling they'd run dangerously hot and were incredibly unreliable, I'm not surprised yours failed even under relatively light use. These days I run a mix of Samsung and WD 'Green' drives, all of which run cool and are perfectly adequate for MAME, although I've stopped buying Samsung now because the current ones are just rebranded low-end Seagates instead (Seagate bought up Samsungs HDD business and promptly started using the brand to flog their junk) |
| JoeB:
Spinning drives is so 1990s. You should move to SSD, it's the future. Cell phones use solid state memory and so do digital cameras, why not pcs?? And don't worry about burning them out, any modern SSD drive has a smart controller that not only contains a garbage collector/trim for optimal performance, but also makes sure that writes to drive are spread across all sectors. If you constantly write to the drive (eg swap file) it would take 20+ years to kill it! |
| Haze:
--- Quote from: JoeB on September 28, 2012, 08:59:19 pm ---Spinning drives is so 1990s. You should move to SSD, it's the future. Cell phones use solid state memory and so do digital cameras, why not pcs?? And don't worry about burning them out, any modern SSD drive has a smart controller that not only contains a garbage collector/trim for optimal performance, but also makes sure that writes to drive are spread across all sectors. If you constantly write to the drive (eg swap file) it would take 20+ years to kill it! --- End quote --- Stop drinking the kool aid dude, theoretical is great, but real use, especially if you put the swapfile / temp folder on it doesn't really give any longer life than spinning disks, and when they die they die hard, without warning. You absolutely don't need an SSD for a MAME machine, the main advantages are they're faster access, which doesn't matter for MAME, you're probably spending more time on the unzip function than the HDD access and they're more tolerant to being dropped (rather unlikely to happen to an arcade cabinet) Spending your money on a top end CPU is far, far more important for an emulation box than any kind of SSD. |
| gman314:
I decided on a WD Caviar black 7200 rpm 500 gb 64 mb cache for my primary drive. As for the secondary backup drive, I have 2 in my possession, 1 of which I will return. Which do you think is better: a WD caviar green 5400 rpm 500 gb 32 mb cache or a WD scorpio notebook drive 7200 rpm 500 gb 16 mb cache? I ordered the notebook drive by mistake. What is more important, the rpm speed of the scorpio or the larger cache of the green? Keep in mind that I have a bartop, so neither drive will be mounted inside of a tower. The third option is that I may just return them both and go with another WD caviar black. |
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