Quiet Quality PSU and Quiet Hard Drives

[Starbuxinvestor]

I am looking for a quiet quality power supply. I am building a file and print server that will be running 24/7 so I would like the noise as low as possible. Also any suggestion on quiet hard drives over 80 gb.🙂

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

I just picked up a dual fan 350w rebadged A1 electoronics PSU, and it has held up solid under 100% CPU usage (folding @home distributed computing) for the last couple days. It's pretty quiet too. Have a 300w in 1600+XP system, and it's solid on the 3.3v and 5v rails under load too (running same distributed computing client)

Other people are gonna say Enermax or Sparkle. But check out some of the Mid-major type PSU's, like HEC, Enhance and A1. Seem like good quality and not as big of a hit on your wallet.

Can't comment too much on the HD's though. I have a 60gb WD and it's quiet enough. I have the case off and I can't hear it when it's accessing data.

 

[TheSwarm]

For a quiet 80GB harddrive, I can recommend the Seagate Barracuda IV. I got one from Dell for $118 recently as a special on home user upgrades. Be careful though, Dell has two ATA100 80GB drives. The Seagate has the slightly slower seek time of 9.5 ms as opposed to the maxtors which have a 9.0 ms seek.

The seagate is by far the quietest element of my system. I can't really hear it, definitely not over the noise of the Sunon 80mm fan I have on the heatsink.

 

[nexus_7]

well you could have Searched...but what ever. The compUSA brand PS's are extreamly quiet. I use 2 for 2 athlon systems.

Greg

 

[RobSay]

Seagate Barracuda IV hd's are by far the quietest out there. As far as a quiet power supply, just sway out the fan for a quieter one. I replaced the on my antec ps with a silencer. It's a pretty easy procedure. I followed the instructions I fould here on anandtech.

 

[jonmcc33]

PSU - Enermax
Hard Drive - Seagate Barracuda IV

 

[Becks2k]

PSU - Antec PP412X (room temp barely louder than a panaflo la1)
HD - CudaIV 40gig=20dba 80gig=24dba idle