I’ve got this drive too.  I

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May 5, 2011 at 5:32 pm #3917
oliverredfox
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    I’ve got this drive too.  I never hear it, even when doing large file transfers.  That humming noise makes me think you got a bad drive that may fail soon.

    As for the bit about it being a slow drive, it is fairly responsive.  It’s in a system with a 64gb SSD (OS Drive), but games and data are kept on the hard drive.  As far as I can tell, the SATA III port is just marketing and doesn’t offer any benefit over SATA II.  I don’t have a modern 7200 drive to compare it to, so maybe in comparison it could super slow.  I have a SAMSUNG Spinpoint F4 HD204UI 2TB 5400 in another system and they seem about the same.  Haven’t benchmarked either, but in my real world use, they both do their job well.