Silent 4 SATA connector power supply for P180

[kudukudu]

I am interested in getting a very quiet system. I want the loudest components on the system to be the stock 120mm case fans in the P180. I am looking for recommendations on a quiet power supply that has 4 SATA connectors since I want to install 2x 250 GB SATA drives in a mirrored configuration initially with an option to add a second pair of mirrored SATA hard drives in the future.

Here is what I am thinking of

Antec P180
ASUS A8N-ALI Premium
3500 venice
graphics card TBD (either a heat sink based 6600GT or giga-byte 800XL with heat sink, no fan)
1 GB of OCZ Cas2 RAM
2 x 250 GB SATA samsung spinpoint drives
LG DVD writer

There are a lot of good quiet power supplies out there with 2 SATA connectors, but not so many with 4 connectors (e.g. the highly recommended seasonic drives tend to only come with 2 connectors except for the 600 watt supply which has 4). I am looking for a supply in the 430-500 watt range. I would like to avoid supplies with super bright LEDs.

Here are some of the supplies I am considering:

Antec TruePower 2.0 480 - nice price, 4 connectors, but I am not sure how quiet this one would be since it hasn't been rated at www.silentpcreview.com yet.

Antec Phantom 500 - a bit more than I would like to spend but does have 4 SATA connectors. There may have also been some reliability issues with these supplies.

thanks

Chris

 

[MDE]

The TruePower 2.0s are extremely quiet. My 430's fan rarely if ever goes over 1000RPM.

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

I see you already have spcr linked, so I have no idea. There are dozens of threads here on PSUs, did you search?

I'm not being funny. I'm still using IDE. I will tell you that the PSU that i'm using for a system up-grade is a FSP Group,
it's a very good 400watt unit but has a noisy BB fan. I replaced this noise maker with a quality sleeve fan. On the bench
it just whispers. If you want quiet spcr does have articals on changing fans in PSU. So just get a quality unit that is in
your price point, meets your needs and change the fan.

Welcome to Anandtech kudukudu.

 

[JBDan]

Wow kudu you are all about silence I see. Good to hear it They do make IDE to SATA150 adaptors, but don't know if your into that. Tagan makes a 480W with 4 SATA's> http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/...roduct_info&cPath=177&products_id=3213 You can get it a bit cheaper elsewhere.
This is what I did and I am a quiet fanatic: I use a 425W deluxe PCP&C and modded the fan. Put an 80mm ADDA that runs about 1300-1400 rpm approx 20cfm. Thats very low for that psu (would not recommend doing in standard top mount cases), but in the P180 and a 120mm low rpm'r (600-800 or so) in the bottem chamber it runs so daRn cool its silly. Thing is; the 425W Deluxe only has 2 SATA's The 510SLI has 6 SATA's. Good price on the 425W deluxes though. You will really like the p180. **Check cable lengths on the psu's! G-Luck.