How do you use the drive? What's bad about the head load/unload cycles? Does it cause wear and tear? Does it make a lot of noise? Does it make the drive unsuitable as a slave storage drive in a desktop computer?įor the use that you intend, I wouldn't predict any problems due to aggressive APM features. I've read and heard arguments supporting one side, and arguments supporting the other side, so I'm a bit confused here? Like one guy said, typically a 2.5" drive is actually designed to experience more shock and more physical abuse, because of the fact that they're more designed to go into laptops.TBorgeaud wrote:I have had to disable the APM features on the two Western Digital Scorpio drives that I currently use in my typical mid tower desktop (to stop unnecessary head load/unload cycles). Is there actually a noticeable difference? Or is it more of a theoretical difference? Not just speed but reliability, and life span.īut I wanted to actually get an answer from someone who has actually owned a computer with 2.5" HDD's installed, but has also used plenty of 3.5" HDD's, or currently has both installed on their current system.
But I say that you'd never notice it, I mean this is providing that you're not running some complex algorithms that relies on storage being to it's best it possibly can be in all departments. From what I've seen online, the 3.5" HDD has a VERY minor edge over the 2.5", but it's so minor that you'd never in 100 years notice the difference. I've looked into it a tiny bit myself, but I was just getting back a bunch of numbers really, although numbers are reliable, it doesn't provide you with a real-life example as to how much of a difference there is between the two. Is there any difference between the two in terms of reliability, life span, performance, noise levels, temperatures, etc? Okay, so I've been wondering, how much of a difference is there between a hard drive that's 3.5" and a hard drive that's 2.5", provided that they're the same make and model, the only difference being the physical size.
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