Are Toshiba P300 Hard drives quieter then the older DT01ACA hard drives?

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A simple question here since I got burned with the Toshiba DT01ACA200 drive I purchased to get some extra storage space as it's loud (both the motor and the read/write arm) and the time has come to purchase more storage and the Toshiba P300 3TB is looking to be the cheaper option and I don't want to get another noisemaker since the whole setup (excluding the 2TB toshiba since that will be turned into an external drive once I have my second drive configuration for this system purchased) is being moved into a new case and I don't want the drives to be making excessive noise.

So, are the newer drives better in the noise department or should I just go for a seagate 3TB drive?
 
i have that exact drive you are looking at and have had no issues with it whatsoever.. its been great for the price i paid i cannot fault it in the 8 months i've owned it. funnily enough it was bought to replace yet another seagate that failed on me.
 
I got a Seagate 3TB with the ending prefix 008 and it's been good for the first 200 hours, not sure how long it'll last but I like it. HDD will always be the loudest part of my system sadly.
 
I have a 3TB Toshiba and I can't hear it over the fans in my aio watercooler.

Not a boot drive though,only storage.
 
Every single Toshiba P300 drive i have used are horrible. They tend to have a really low down hum/vibration that is really irritating like the platters are a little unbalanced. Oh and this is in machines with dampening mounts on the HDD tray, on systems that do not have that dampening they are terribly noisy. This is from my experience of using easily 40 drives from different sources and batches with various capacities. I have never had that sort of issue or noise from Seagate, WD or HGST.
 
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