My HTPC hdd's are doing my head!!

jammir · 3 Mar 2007 at 19:42

im gonna move them to my main rig as the noise there won’t matter can anyone suggest a quite large hdd looking at 400gb+, currently I have two 500gb WD sata hdds for storage and pvr, a Seagate 10gb boot drive no noise there and a 400gb Hitachi for storage which isn’t that noisy.

rpstewart · 3 Mar 2007 at 20:12

If noise is the primary concern then it has to be a Samsung.

squiffy · 3 Mar 2007 at 20:36

Or use a laptop drive in the HTPC and use a NAS.

Buy a larger single quieter drive, or reduce the number of drives in your HTPC and move the other elseware (NAS/server)

Tony Williams · 3 Mar 2007 at 21:49

If you have a computer that stays up 24/7 keep the hard disks in there and just stream them, failing that buy Samsungs.

david25 · 4 Mar 2007 at 09:03

jammir said:
im gonna move them to my main rig as the noise there won’t matter can anyone suggest a quite large hdd looking at 400gb+, currently I have two 500gb WD sata hdds for storage and pvr, a Seagate 10gb boot drive no noise there and a 400gb Hitachi for storage which isn’t that noisy.

Download the ibm/Hitachi feature tool and use this to enable automatic acoustic management settings (should work on WDs)

Tarty · 4 Mar 2007 at 09:28

The spinpoint 500gb are on this week only atm

cavemanoc · 4 Mar 2007 at 10:54

Nothing would be as quiet as a NAS hidden somewhere else.

Bomag · 4 Mar 2007 at 12:51

I got to the point with my HTPC when the HDD were the noisiest part by about 10dBa. Switched to three 2.5" Samsung 160GB drives and its virtually silent (i.e. same as the ambient noise of a quiet room).

All the long term storage is on a NAS and a couple of servers i n another room.