Quiet 12~14TB HDD?

[SpellowHouse]

Hello!
I'm looking for a 12~14TB HDD. The main think about it must be that it is quiet. Performance is not really important. My "go-to" for this would be a WD RED PLUS but seem to be thin on the ground at the moment. I need to order one this week.
I appreciated that it's a NAS drive not a PC drive, but I am not worried about that.

Any ideas?

 

[SpellowHouse]

What do you consider quiet?
Is it about some specific noises HDDs make that you don't like?
How is rest of the Pc cooled (based on what you wrote I assume you are planning to use NAS drive in a PC?)?

Yes, in a PC, and it's in my lounge. A WD RED PLUS is fine, noise-wise, but I am uncertain about anything else.

I may have to hunt around for one that is in stock somewhere. :/

 

[SpellowHouse]

I found a 12TB WD RED PLUS for sale.

WD just gave me a 10TB RED PLUS as well, but that's a tad too small.

 

[SpellowHouse]

So WD actually specify acoustics, but they don't state at what distance, so could assume at 1m

https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library/en_us/assets/public/western-digital/product/internal-drives/wd-red-plus-hdd/product-brief-western-digital-wd-red-plus-hdd.pdf

12TB and 14TB seem to be same noise wise, anything below 12TB, especially 10TB is worse.
What drive do you have now that you considered quiet? Based on its spec check against other drives that you could purchase and you're there.

The ones I have used before are the 6TB and 8TB. They are effectively silent at the distances I am talking about.

 

[SpellowHouse]

I found one! 12TB WD Red Plus. It's in and data is loading. It's a mesh frame (albeit on anti-vibration supports) and I am sat 5 meters from it and I can't hear it at all. Woo! Success!

 

[SpellowHouse]

I assume you will be mounting it with rubber grommets to dampen vibration? If so to best nowadays you will hardly notice it although the same couldn't be said 10 years ago.

I have some old rubber mounts that I got years ago. Can't get them any more. they are almost an inch long and completely isolate the drive. Excellent little things.

I'm really happy with the outcome. I really can't hear the drive at all, and given the enclosure I was really worried about it.

The WD Red Plus may be a bit slack on performance, but they are ideal for what I needed.

I suppose the next one I get, in a few years time, will be an SSD.

 

[SpellowHouse]

I can remember I bought one of the first 10,000 rpm drives that came out. I think it was an IBM. Damn thing screamed like Concorde. Got hot too. I had to construct a special enclosure to shut it up.