10TB HDD

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Can anyone recommend a 10TB HDD for a PC? The most important consideration is noise. It must be as quiet as possible. Performance is not a consideration, any modern drive is more than fast enough. It can be CMR or SMR. First on my list here is the WD RED PLUS, which should be quiet but that's a guess, I have no idea.
 
Helium drives *should* be quieter. I swear by Seagate EXOS drives, but others may have other thoughts.

I do have some WD Reds and they are very quiet. Not Plus' though.

The EXOS drives can be found in Seagate Expansion desktop chassis, and I think the WD MyBook drives are supposed to be white labelled Reds
 
In here I have WD Gold, Seagate Exos and Toshiba Enterprise drives... all between 8 and 12TB. By far, the quieter in my hands are the Exos, the more annoying the WD Gold with the clicking sound and the noisier the Toshiba. However, the Toshiba do not click, so I find them preferable :).
 
I'm personally using the white label WD drives (the ones sold as external drives) they're a little slow but not significantly so compared similar drives.
Also use the Toshiba N300 drives and have found good price to performance from those.
 
Ah! You know I looked at the Exos and thought they should be quiet but some post somewhere said they had a noisy one, so I guess from what you are saying that one was just faulty. I may well try the EXOS since they seem to have a really good reputation and are good value too.
 
IT Troll said:
Most of the 10TB+ drives are 7200 RPM which tend to be noisier than the 5400 RPM models. WD Red are one of the few exceptions.
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In my experience the 10TB+ drives are generally much quieter because they are Helium filled. I shucked an 8TB drive from a WD Elements (WD80EDAZ-11TA3A0), it is an air filled drive and is extremely noisy. It also runs very hot so it's probably power hungry, when I had it connected to a docking station without any airflow in a 20c room it reached 53c under load, it would probably have been even hotter than that if I left it in the enclosure. Meanwhile, all my shucked 10TB+ helium drives are whisper quiet when idle and occasionally a bit noisy when the drive head gets busy during random workloads.
 
From what I've read, (as doug says) the Exos and the white label EZAZ drives are fairly quiet, although it's difficult to find any drive which truly is.

If you really want silence either put some network attached storage with 10TB in another room, or put a bunch of SSD's into a pool together.

I personally just put my NAS in the attic, quite and expandable.
 
pp111 said:
Can anyone recommend a 10TB HDD for a PC? The most important consideration is noise. It must be as quiet as possible. Performance is not a consideration, any modern drive is more than fast enough. It can be CMR or SMR. First on my list here is the WD RED PLUS, which should be quiet but that's a guess, I have no idea.
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Why do you need a 10gb drive?
 
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