DuckieHo

Anyone know of any?
Yes, SSD are silent but out of most people's price range.
Yes, laptop drivers are often quiet but at the cost of performance.

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Metalica732

I've heard that Samsung drives are relativly quiet. Although i would not judge a HDD like that. If you want to have a silent drive i would look into Hard drive enclosures.

I don't know if you've heard of endpcnoise but here are some good things they picked out

Anti Vibration things


Otherwise every HDD is practickly teh same

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Burn

I have been using a Seagate 7200.11 drive for a while now, and I find it's very quiet. At 500GB, that's a lot of storage space for such silence.

I will try and quiet my system down and run a benchmark on it to see how much noise it makes in a while.

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DuckieHo

Western Digital Cavier Green Power get top reviews from SPCR.
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article786-page1.html

These are basically 5400RPM drives in a 3.5" form factor. The stupid thing is that there is a 50% price premium on them.

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darkninja420

my samsung hd160jj has never made a single noise duckie. i can higly suggest it for total silence.

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Truambitionz

I can agree with that one.

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dragosmp

I don't really agree, 7200.11 is quiet, but while it seeks it's very noisy. WD AAKS series are quieter during seeks, but not really quiet. Samsung single platter drives are probably the quietest 7200 rpm HDDs, but still they are far noisier that any notebook hdd.

Based on many reviews (and hearsay) that WD GreenPower are really the only 3.5 inch drives that are really quiet even while seaking.

I pondered between buying a notebook HDD for a build or the overpriced GP... in $/GB the GP pawns any notebook HDD.

If you don't get neither the GP nor notebook drives, try to suspend the HDD with rubber bands in a 5.25" slot - it will get 10°C hotter (if not aided by a fan), but it will almost silence them. Supposing you choose to suspend the HDD, you should pick the colder HDDs, not seagates because these need additional cooling.

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deafboy

I have two 7200 seagates and I honestly can hardly ever hear em...but I have quite a bit of acoustical padding in my case.

DuckieHo

...this coming from deafboy....

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Syrillian

Hahahahaha.... that's great!

(no offense deafboy. ya gotta admit there is a humurous irony somewhere in there)

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