Xbox 360 - Which DVD drive you got?

[Pac3y]

Got the samsung by the looks! got mine in December.

 

[KennyBhoy]

Wonder what the Hitachi sounds like

Attach a Dyson hoover onto each ear and you'll get an accurate sound test of the wonder that is the Hitachi drive

 

[Scratchy]

I have the Samsung and have never really considered it to be quite when it starts spinning, the Hitachi must be real loud.

 

[Aspect]

Hitachi here, loud as hell

 

[MoNkeE]

Sammy for me, ta

-RaZ

 

[jklc]

Crazy loud Hitachi here I've had it for a while but had no 360 games to test. The demos loaded from the HD relatively quietly. I was all when I finally got Condemned and Ridge Racer in the post!

They need non-deaf testing R&D folk in them Microsoft labs My solution so far is to move the console as far away from me as possible and stick a box partially covering it. Its still way worse than my OC-ed PC but bearable... for the time being.

 

[GuruJockStrap]

Hitachi drive for me.

Blasted thing is considerably louder than my Shuttle PC when its spinning up.

 

[Ultra_Extreme]

ive got thesamsung but its loud as anything anyway lol tho im used to it now. If its quiter than the hitachi then i feel for you lot!! On a side note, isnt it odd that they chose loud and essentially unproven SATA drives when a top end IDE woulda prolly done fine. Geuss they really wanted transfer speed!

 

[gord]

Gord whats the date on the back of your console, i have only had mine a month, but manu date on mine is nov time

29th - 11 - 2005.. damn thought i had a new one..

Prays it wont break..

 

[Datamonkey]

same date as mine gord, lol

u get it from argos?


only had mine a month now.

 

[Boogle]

ive got thesamsung but its loud as anything anyway lol tho im used to it now. If its quiter than the hitachi then i feel for you lot!! On a side note, isnt it odd that they chose loud and essentially unproven SATA drives when a top end IDE woulda prolly done fine. Geuss they really wanted transfer speed!

Thinner cables for better airflow for.... you guessed it silence

Quite funny that the console was tested in an air tunnel to ensure the airflow was perfect to keep it silent.... then they dump an optical drive in far nosier than the first gen Pioneer slot DVD drives (which were very noisy btw).

 

[GuruJockStrap]

Thinner cables for better airflow for.... you guessed it silence

Quite funny that the console was tested in an air tunnel to ensure the airflow was perfect to keep it silent.... then they dump an optical drive in far nosier than the first gen Pioneer slot DVD drives (which were very noisy btw).

Its really annoying.

The unit is nice and quiet when playing a demo from the HD for example or sitting in the dashboard.

 

[xander_uk2]

I can see the loudness of these drives (even the supposed quieter Samsung drive) really spoiling some games with their constant noise.

And WTF???? Testing it in an Air tunnel?? Then dropping in a jet engine powered optical drive?? (As boogle said)

EDIT: spelling

 

[Dancake(uk)]

Wish mine had "Toshiba" and "HD" written on it somewhere...

 

[lordrobs]

By the description i've got a Hitachi.

The noise is highly effected by the position of the console. when it was placed high on a shelf the noise was much more noticable than it is now its placed low down on a twin shelf cofee table.

 

[~J~]

My first 360 had the Samsung, the replacement is the Hitachi.

TBH, I can't really tell THAT much of a difference

 

[turtle3]

My first 360 had the Samsung, the replacement is the Hitachi.

TBH, I can't really tell THAT much of a difference

Same as, this replacement is near silent compared to the first 360 I had, The hard drive on the first 360 i had could be heard spinning up, all I can hear from this one is slight fan noise of the 360, hardly audiable