Quietest large capaciy IDE drive?

Hades · 4 Aug 2006 at 19:50

I'm in the market for a large capacity IDE drive (300gb - 400gb). Silence is more important than speed, price or capacity (may even consider a 250gb if it's the quietest). Can anyone make any recommendations?

Thanks.

t31os · 4 Aug 2006 at 20:04

Western Digital make the quietest drives in my personal experience.

They generally are very reliable to. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/WesternDigital_IDE.html

Baddass · 4 Aug 2006 at 20:09

also interested in this. Looking for a 200Gb - 300Gb hard disk, probably IDE which is quiet. Any more recommendations?

GeezerButler · 4 Aug 2006 at 21:18

My Samsung SpinPoint 300GBs are pretty quiet - one is in an external enclosure backing up my media center and is still pretty quiet. Seeks seem a bit quieter than the WD 300 in my mate's PC.

Hades · 4 Aug 2006 at 22:05

GeezerButler said:
My Samsung SpinPoint 300GBs are pretty quiet - one is in an external enclosure backing up my media center and is still pretty quiet. Seeks seem a bit quieter than the WD 300 in my mate's PC.

That's interestng to know. I've heard good things about the Spinpoints and this will indeed be in an external enclosure.

t31os said:
Western Digital make the quietest drives in my personal experience.

They generally are very reliable to. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/WesternDigital_IDE.html

I must admit that all the WD's I've had have been quite noisy. Fast. But a little "whiney". Although it's been a while since I bought one so maybe I should give one a try.

noxidjkram@hotm · 6 Aug 2006 at 09:10

I have the SATA Samsung Spinpoint 250GB (SP2504C), and can confirm its pretty darn quiet. The IDE version is the same drive with a different interface on it IIRC.

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munge · 6 Aug 2006 at 09:26

Another vote for Spinpoints, was very impressed when I got mine.

Spirited · 6 Aug 2006 at 13:26

Spinpoint's are generally regarded as some the quietest drives available. There may be quieter drives (and I'm sure there are), but Spinpoints are definately "up there".

This is not personal experience I should add -- just what I've read.

muckymick · 6 Aug 2006 at 23:04

For a while i have used nothing but samsungs and have have found them to be really quiet and reliable,but i bought a western digi 250gig sata with 16mb cache and am pretty impressed with how quiet it is,its deffo close between the 2 brands.

stoofa · 7 Aug 2006 at 16:20

Inside my PC I'm currently running a couple of WD 250GB SATA2 drives and they are great - really not making much noise at all.

Today we took delivery of a 250GB Samsung drive to fit inside the Enermax Laureate external drive enclosure we also ordered.
This drive really is near silent.
If it wasn't for the blue LED on the front of this thing we wouldn't even know it was doing anything.

I'm happy with the WD's in my machine, but if I'd wanted silence or really, really quiet right now I think I'd probably buy Samsung going on this drive we've got.

Messiah Khan · 7 Aug 2006 at 17:08

Samsung Spinpoint in a Smartdrive 2002C enclosure is about as silent as your going to get.

Hades · 7 Aug 2006 at 18:31

Thanks for all the input. It looks like Samsung is the way to go.

Bin Boy · 7 Aug 2006 at 21:12

I have two Samsung SpinPoint 80GB drives and they are quiet, they could be even be more quiet if i enabled the AAM on the drives, this is what i plan to be doing for my upgrade on the HTPC, with larger Samsung sized drives.

Duke · 7 Aug 2006 at 21:52

Spinpoints are very quiet but a little slower than say a Maxtor/WD.

BassPunk · 8 Aug 2006 at 21:50

Loving my Samsung HD400LD

Hades · 9 Aug 2006 at 01:44

colin said:
Loving my Samsung HD400LD

Please stop tempting me. I'm really trying to not spend quite so much. The 300gb looks so much better value. But I just know a time will come when I'm short of the odd gb or two