Quietest Mechanical HDD

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Xplo

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Hi all

Currently have a 1TB WD Blue drive which is only a couple of months old, and is only used as a storage drive.

I have recently tweaked all my fan settings so at idle (surfing web etc) the fans are totally silent. However since this i have noticed a faint buzzing/humming sound. (Have a 250D sitting on desk btw)

Firstly i thought it was coming from the psu but after disconnecting the drive it is defantly the WD Blue making the noise. Now its not a noise i would say is alarming, it works fine and just seems as a normal operational noise of the discs spinning it sounds like. I just have sensitive hearing and its annoying the crap out of me!

So the question i guess is, has anybody else been in this situation and are there any drives which are totally totally silent?? My train of thought is maybe enterprise drives are much quieter due to superior build quality, or infact green drives which spin slower and only spin up when accessed??

Thanks :)
 
I would suggest the Greens for this situation too! I've had one in my Parvum for some time now and I can't hear it!
 
Is there space to suspend the drive using elastic in the case? If it's a buzzing noise it could be the drive resonating on the case so swapping out the drive might not help. I have a PC under my bed with 5 hard drives in running with 5v fans and the only drive I can hear spin up is a seagate 3tb as the elastic is starting to go after 3 years.
 
Hi

Good idea on the elastic i will try that first!! Failing that are the red drives better to go with over the green? It seems they are all the same soec just build to a more robust standard and even quieter than greens?
 
Be aware that the greens will go into 'sleep' mode, if the drive isn't accessed for a set amount of time (10 minutes I think, havent timed it exactly).

When they 'wakeup' from this sleep state, as in you access data from the drive, there will be a 5-7 second delay until the data is accessible. There is also an audible 'click' type sound as the drive whirls into life.

It's by no means loud, though the noise is definitely there.

The greens are great drives, as long as you don't mind the sleep/wake up delay/slight noise.
 
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