Question for all you 74GB Raptor Owners!!

[daveybrat]

I'm seriously thinking of getting the 74GB Raptor. Only thing holding me back right now is possibly noise.
I bought and returned the 36GB Raptor a while ago. I loved the performance of the drive, but i did not like the noise it made.

Now, to elaborate, the noise during crunching was fine, but the idle noise is like a low-pitched whine.

To me it sounded like the whine a SCSI hard drive makes while idle. I couldn't put up with it so i thought i'd wait to see the next raptor.

So do any of you who own the 74GB notice any idle whining noise? And how much quieter is this drive than the 36GB model?

thanks again! 🙂

 

[charloscarlies]

I notice absolutely no whine at idle. You will hear the drive during seeking and what not...but otherwise they are pretty quiet.