Hello all,
I have 3 Hard Drives and in my quest to quiet my beast, painfully so, of a loud system I think this is a quick and easy step.
Here they are:
WD 36GB 10K Raptor [OS/Apps]
WD 200 GB 7200 RPM [Storage]
Seagate 400GB 7200.8 [Storage]
All are SATA and I can hear all of them spin up and down and the like.
Now my question. I know I can set for my hard drives to power down but I do not want this. I would love it if I can selectively set the 2, and only those 2, storage drives to power down (i.e. essentially off) until I need them. I do access them on a daily basis but only when I play music or am working on papers and the like. Essentially they can afford to be powered down as they are not accessed frequently so there would not be a start/stop/start/stop jarring motion which in general is more bad for hard drives and causes more wear and tear than keeping them constantly rotating.
This would be great if I could do this...now to my next question:
Hard Drive enclosures...have any of you had any experience with them? I am not talking about elastic hard drive enclosures but the wrap-around heatsink style (preferably passive) enclosures.
I believe Silent Drive makes ones that are advertised as good by Silent Pc Review [I am in the research phase of a dead quiet high-end system...hardest system I've built do date
] but I was wondering if any of you had used anything else.
Now for most people quiet and power are give-take options but I am tired of going the power route (multiple fast HD's, Loud HSF combos, Too loud PSU's, Noisy videocards, etc) at the expense of quiet.
Right now my system is a loud drone that is a huge nuisance while doing system-work...so please help AT!!!
Thanks
I have 3 Hard Drives and in my quest to quiet my beast, painfully so, of a loud system I think this is a quick and easy step.
Here they are:
WD 36GB 10K Raptor [OS/Apps]
WD 200 GB 7200 RPM [Storage]
Seagate 400GB 7200.8 [Storage]
All are SATA and I can hear all of them spin up and down and the like.
Now my question. I know I can set for my hard drives to power down but I do not want this. I would love it if I can selectively set the 2, and only those 2, storage drives to power down (i.e. essentially off) until I need them. I do access them on a daily basis but only when I play music or am working on papers and the like. Essentially they can afford to be powered down as they are not accessed frequently so there would not be a start/stop/start/stop jarring motion which in general is more bad for hard drives and causes more wear and tear than keeping them constantly rotating.
This would be great if I could do this...now to my next question:
Hard Drive enclosures...have any of you had any experience with them? I am not talking about elastic hard drive enclosures but the wrap-around heatsink style (preferably passive) enclosures.
I believe Silent Drive makes ones that are advertised as good by Silent Pc Review [I am in the research phase of a dead quiet high-end system...hardest system I've built do date
] but I was wondering if any of you had used anything else.Now for most people quiet and power are give-take options but I am tired of going the power route (multiple fast HD's, Loud HSF combos, Too loud PSU's, Noisy videocards, etc) at the expense of quiet.
Right now my system is a loud drone that is a huge nuisance while doing system-work...so please help AT!!!
Thanks
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