I could not hear any seek noise during this test unless I put my ear next to the drive, and then it was just faintly audible.

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In addition, ramp loading technology means that when your hard drive or desktop PC are being transported, the drive slider does not make contact with the disk and risk wearing or data loss. Ramp Load technology restricts the drive’s recording head from touching the disk media, resulting in improved protection of the drive while being transported and less wear to the recording head. HDDs incorporated in personal computer or several home appliance may record personal data and/or other important data as signal. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.This is a popular formula - faster drives are louder, and people tend to complain about that nowadays. Optimized data access sequence helps improve performance and minimize mechanical workload from the drive.

Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB Internal Hard Drive - OEM - Scan

Optimized for use in consumer and commercial desktop computers, All-in-One systems, gaming PCs, external storage and applications where capacity, performance and reliability are critical. Toshiba does not guarantee the availability of all products or models at these retailers and distributor. It's possible that the hard drive is failing, especially with the Short DST - fail and slow read speeds. Therefore, if the drive were auto-parking itself, I should have seen the "load/unload" counter increase at every 5 minute update. In an experiment on my system, I found that >2TB drives don't even appear in the WinXP-32 Disk Management screen.Designed for high capacity and excellent performance, you can be sure that Toshiba’s wealth of experience in hard drives is at work in your storage system. Any idea what could cause this problem, and show short DST failure with my computer but not with another ?

Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 7200rpm 3.5 Inch Internal

This 3TB DT01ACA300 is the slower but much quieter drive - it's inline with most modern consumer 7200rpm drives. Did Seatools testing, it had a hard time reading aswell and the result was "Short DST - fail", but i'm unable to find any more information about it. Limited support for GPT was added for 64-bit WinXP, but not for a system drive, only for a data disk.

Optimized for use in power-friendly consumer and commercial desktop computing systems, the drive’s power management technology provides significant power consumption savings at 5.