Quietest Hard Drive available....

[aphex]

Just switched to using a minimac and have my 250gb Maxtor in an external FW enclosure...

It sounds like a jet engine compared to the mini...

Any fairly quiet hd's?

 

[knightwhosaysni]

Samsung drives are fairly quiet. The storagereview database has noise measurements.

 

[Icopoli]

Just be prepared that quiet usually means slow and small.

Really quiet drives are 20gb 5400 Seagates, or any other 5400rpm drive.

 

[mwmorph]

samsung spinpoints(i have one) are fairly fast AND queit. 7200rpm UDMA gets me really good speeds according to a lot of benchmarks(hd tach for one)

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: Icopoli
Just be prepared that quiet usually means slow and small.

Really quiet drives are 20gb 5400 Seagates, or any other 5400rpm drive.

Well its only gonna be used in my external FW drive to store all my music and pictures... Nothing intensive at all....

All i want is quiet... 🙂

 

[mshan]

Some over at SPCR are actually saying the new 300 or 320 GB Western Digital SE hard drives are actually very, very quiet.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

My Samsung 160GB Spinpoint is very quiet.

 

[mshan]

Accidental double post deleted.

 

[fell8]

In my experience, WDs asre extremely quiet. Seagate does pretty good too.

 

[cryptonomicon]

honestly doest matter to me, almost any drive could be quiet once you suspend the drive and most of the noise goes away. it took me a while to figure this out ( i eliminated all the noise in my case, down to just the hard drive ) and then I was like... OH. Just suspend the hard drive and look at the difference. However seagate is a fairly quiet drive *after* the break in period with the stupid diagnostic buzzing sounds.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: cryptonomicon
honestly doest matter to me, almost any drive could be quiet once you suspend the drive and most of the noise goes away. it took me a while to figure this out ( i eliminated all the noise in my case, down to just the hard drive ) and then I was like... OH. Just suspend the hard drive and look at the difference. However seagate is a fairly quiet drive *after* the break in period with the stupid diagnostic buzzing sounds.

This is going in an external FW drive... Very prone to vibrations.....

 

[bREwIn dOdgEr dUDe]

i just stuck a 60gb WD 7200 (i had laying around) in a vantec nexstar3 enclosure, just to have an extra back-up drive, and lo-und-behold i did not expect it to be quiet since it would be sitting next to my monitor on my desk... i was surprised to find hardly a whimper from it... tho, my next build i will be using the samsung 160gb spinpoints...

 

[w00t]

i heard spinpoint P was with good performance of course.

 

[mshan]

I believe a lot of Western Digital hard drives manufactured after January of this year are supposed to be quiet (fluid dynamic bearings). I think the 300 and 320 GB JD drives are very recent, so that's why some at SPCR mentioned them.

 

[Varun]

I have a Spinpoint P80 120GB and it's very quiet, plus decent performance.

 

[klah]

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article29-page2.html

 

[LiekOMG]

Another vote for the Samsung Spinpoint line of HDD's

 

[mechBgon]

Cheetah 15k.3 on the far end of a 10-meter SCSI cable would be pretty quiet 😀

 

[Oyeve]

My dead 80 gig WD800 is VERY quiet :brokenheart:

 

[tfinch2]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822140133

This drive is very quiet. I've had one running in my system for about 2 years now and it's great.

 

[edmundoab]

my vote on seagate

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Seagate ATA drives are quiet, I haven't heard much about the SATA drives

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: The Pentium Guy
Seagate ATA drives are quiet, I haven't heard much about the SATA drives

im sure they would be the same ..as most same make/model SATA and IDE drives internally are alike .. just the external interface is different

 

[The Pentium Guy]

That's what I wondered too, but from what I've heard the SATA drives make a motor noise

 

[dug777]

my FDB WD Caviar 160GB is very quiet 😉