SFF HDD for Shuttle SN25P

[Aa-chan]

Recently bought an SN25P and am not sure which HDD to put in it. I've not been in the loop for quite a while and so don't really know which the top drives are at the moment.

I want something that's compatible [obviously], quiet and isn't going to melt anything. Ideal capacity is 200-250GB because I just don't need anything more than that.

Any recommendations would be helpful .

[Lazlow]

Samsung Spinpoint 250gb will do well, as it's one of the quietest drives available and also nice and quick.

[Tomm]

I've got a Seagate 250Gb IDE in my Shuttle, had no problems at all, it supposed to be one of the quietest

[Aa-chan]

Is SATAII the same as SATA300? Just need to confirm this before I buy .

[Lazlow]

Yes. SATAI being the first generation, or SATA150 in terms of speed. SATAII being the second generation, or SATA300 in terms of speed.

[Firehed]

Well technically there's more to it than that, but that's the basic idea. However, any drive with a SATA plug will connect without issue to any SATA port, obviously running at the slower of the two speeds if they're not the same (or at least it should always work that way; my fileserver has SATA 1.5Gbps ports and 3Gbps drives, and no issues).

I'd give props to Seagate too, if that's what you're considering. I just got a pair of their 320GB drives with perpendicular recording, and they're amazingly fast (they outpace my Raptors by at least 15MB/s sustained, and additionally max out the channel on read bursts). At least stateside, they can be had for $99 each right now, which is an awesome price for that capacity regardless of the speed. Haven't heard a peep from them. Only complaint was that they took about five hours to do a full format, but you've gotta expect that from a drive that size.