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Quiet HDD 7200RPM

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SnorkyLorky

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Looking for a silent harddrive of atleast 2TB storage - preferably 3.
My MB (P8Z77-V Deluxe) supports SSD caching, I was wondering if using a 5400RPM together with a 256GB SSD cache could work as well?
 
I find this drive to be pretty much silent, I can't hear it over anything else in my case which was a definite improvement over my old HDD that sounded like styrofoam balls dragging over gravel.

The 3TB drive should be just as quiet.
 
"Noise" generally comes from vibration or air turbulence, so reducing vibration and choosing fans as well as their placement along with reducing noise transmission within a case is the more productive plan of attack.
Working with a quiet case design is more beneficial than nit picking each component for noise level... IMO


This article is well worth a read if you're interested in building a quiet PC.
SilentPC Review: Case Basics & Recommendations
 
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SnorkyLorky said:
Looking for a silent harddrive of atleast 2TB storage - preferably 3.
My MB (P8Z77-V Deluxe) supports SSD caching, I was wondering if using a 5400RPM together with a 256GB SSD cache could work as well?
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Caching can be done with up to a 64GB SSD partition. A 5400RPM drive cached would definitely be faster than a 7200RPM drive without cache.
 
Newer boards (from asus atleast) has no size limit on ssd caching.
I will be putting this in a Fractal Design Define R4 case which is supposed to have good acoustics.
I think I will go with a 7200 rpm though (with caching as a bonus).
 
I was talking about Intel SRT. I don't know if Asus' own implementation is better.

Regardless, if you have a 256GB SSD I think you'd be much better off just using it as an OS drive, SSD caching isn't as fast.
 
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I already have another SSD as OS drive. I think I'm gonna go with HDD-Intern-3.5 SEAGATE BARRACUDA 3TB 7200RPM SATA/600 64MB. (ST3000DM001)
 
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