The absolute quietest Hard drives

[easyrider]

Having got my raptor and its now in a silentmaxx i want to get some new hard drives.

What are the quietest?

must have 16mb caches and not be audible whn idle.I mean quiet when spinning.

 

[easyrider]

I have been looking ta the Samsung spinpoints 250 GB.I notice they are sata II.

Its just a shame they don't do a model with 16mb cache as these would be the ones I would get.

Its been a while since I have had a seagate drive.

Are the new seagate models quieter than the maxtors?

 

[easyrider]

Of my drives, the 200GB Barracuda 7200 is a fair bit quieter than the 120 gig spinpoint. The spinpoint was quiet to begin with but as it fills up it dpes more work and get's louder. The seagate i can't even hear read in that PC, My Spinpoint can be heard faintly in a far louder PC (i.e 5x80mm fans @ 2500RPM).


If you want quiet but big. I'd probably look at some smaller 5400RPM disks and Raid them.

I'm not so much bothered about the seek rumble really.
Its the high pitched whine of drives

My maxtors are quiet but I'm am very close to having a silent system now and the ringing of the drives can just about be heard.

Its between the seagates and the spin points

 

[easyrider]

I have a 320gb SATA western digital

And boy is it quiet. I cant hear it when it random accesses!!!

my raptor and my maxtor crunch away like hell on accessing. but the WD is virtually inaudible.

Tom

what about the ringing?

The bells the bells they deafen me the bells(quasimodo)

 

[easyrider]

snap. blooody fast, very quiet.

easyrider why must it have 16mb cache?

The maxtors I have all are 16mb cache.

Maybe I'm a bit anal and would like my new drives to have the same.
Something to do with justifying the upgrade I guess.

Bigger cache is better too?

Let me know.

Editing is smoother with bigger cache's right?

I might Raid 0 two and keep the the other two single.