How quiet are Seagates?

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After a good performing drive, yet also a quiet one. How quiet are the Seagate 7200.10s? They're amongst the best performing drives but if they're noisy I'm not interested.

Idle whine doesn't tend to be much of an issue with modern drives with fluid bearings, but I'm not sure about the seek noise. Do the Seagates have any accoustic management which can be enabled to quieten them down?

Cheers for any info.
 
Just found the monster thread on the Seagates and the "pink" glue issue.

As quietness is a major priority here I think I'm gonna play it safe and go with a Samsung.
 
When you say the drives are quiet, is that just the idle noise or the seeks as well. Most of the discussions seem to relate to idle whine but I don't want a drive which is noisy when accessing.

I'm currently contemplating popping into OcUK this afternoon as I could do with the drive for the weekend so the DSR won't apply if I get a noisy one. Was just planning to check for pink glue before buying but it would seem that even this isn't a foolproof indicator of getting a quiet one.
 
MikeHunt79 said:
Yep, I've tried the seagates, and have had noisey and quiet ones. The samsungs are much quieter. :)
Well, reading up on Samsung's latest, it appears that they may be quiet but suffer from a bit of physical vibration.

This is concerning, firstly because such vibration would transfer to the case and cause more noise (no I'm not about to buy rubber mounts or enclosures to minimise this - why the hell should I have to) and secondly, I can't see any logical reason why a hard drive should vibrate unless it's poorly balanced, which doesn't speak too well about their manufacturing tolerances in my view.

Dunno what the hell to do :(
 
I'm now contemplating getting a Deskstar as these drives have the acoustic management options to quieten the seeks down if they're too noisy. Don't think any other manufacturers have this system any more, do they?
 
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