Can you hear it?

[Mosad]

I know this is stupid and i should know, but i gotta make sure

I am looking at a raptor hard drive to buy and i know they are loud an di want a silent pc, but that only matters when i sleep at night... so my question is... if the hard drive isnt actively seeking, is it producing noise?

 

[Green84061]

hmm mine doesnt seem that bad but my pc is in now way silent. also in retrospect i wouldnt have gotten a raptor i would just get a big seagate drive.

 

[KoolDrew]

I would much rather go a bigger drive too. If you want quite look at Samsung. Seagates are good too.

 

[Budman]

Originally posted by: KoolDrew
I would much rather go a bigger drive too. If you want quite look at Samsung. Seagates are good too.

I think he means Quiet.

 

[Green84061]

as have been stated many times before the only reason to get a raptor is if you have lots of money like 1700+ to spend on your comp, if you dont use any hd space, if you wanna brag, or you made the decision before you thought about it to much like me.

 

[imported_Kensai]

I believe that it's continously spinning when you power it up, I could be wrong though.

 

[Umberger]

to answer your actual question, no the raptor is almost silent when it's not actively doing anything. I can never hear it over the case and CPU fans. depending what you want to do, you could tell windows to let the drives turn off after a certain amount of time....

 

[Mosad]

but you said in your "rig" specs that it sounds like a tornado when turned up... lol if you can even barely hear the raptor over that... thats no good