Quiet hard drives

Hello everyone,

I have a simple question. What is the quietest hard drive (80 GB +) on the market today?

never had this question posed to me...hmm...let's see....

I've used a lot of different brands, but the major ones (western digital, maxtor) seem to be good. I never had any problems with noise with
either of those.

What are you using now that's giving you such a problem with noise??

Maxtor's, Western Digitals, and Samsungs are the three quietest drives I've ever owned. I have two sitting next to me and one at work and all I hear are the power supply fans....and that is a soothing sound... *lol

(The samsung has probably been the absolute quietest.)

Added note -- I did have a friend who went round-about with Maxtor once on noisy drives and it wasn't 'til the third one they sent him he got a quiet one. It was probably a fluke, but I thought I'd mention it.

Even with the sides off of my cases I hear the drone of the fan more than I hear the hard drives inside. I have western digital, maxtor, and a few other brands that I can't remember the names of right now. All of them are pretty quiet. If it is making alot of noise then there might be a problem with it. Backup your data to a tape drive, CD or DVD just in case it deciedes to quit working all together. Enjoy

you should get out a little more

hehehe j/k

*lol at Unflux. At home I have 2 computers next to me (one with an old Seagate slave -- that's a noisy little bugger for sure), and one about 10 feet from me doing nothing but distributed computing. At my new office at work I have 2 servers, 1 remote client, and 2 workstations sitting to the right and left of my desk. One's mine - the other I'm prepping for use.

Yep -- ImaGeek.

But more to the point, I don't hear a single hard drive running amongst them, and they are all either Western Digital, Samsung, or Maxtor. I've had two Western Digitals go belly up on me in the past, but not the other two. My personal pref would be the Samsung. Other than that all I hear are fans.

In the meantime, I do get out when I want to. For the time being, I like this. Later when/if I get bored with it, I'll go back to playing guitar.

the shame in my comments are that I am the same way

Samsung hard disk fujitsu siemens pc only thing i hear is monitor humming a bit

Hi everyone!

Thanks for the info. The hard drive being used was a Maxtor and it sounded like a Boeing 747. Computer is in a living room.

Drive has been changed for a Seagate. It is extremely quiet.

Sorry I couldn't get back sooner.

I'm happy to say that I'll be here more often!!

Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 is one of the quietest because they use fluid bearings

I'm about to get a 300gig Seagate for $99. CompUSA <3

CompUSa </3 because i never get rebates
i have a hitachi right now and the only thing i can hear are the psu fans, and 2 of the 5 [functioning] case fans

What had me upset about those three 120GB drives was that they were advertised as being whisper quiet due to some new liquid bearing or some such tech.
It wasn't until they ran out of the 120 GB drives at the depot that they sent me a 160 GB drive, but using the older ATA-100 interface not the (then-new) ATA-133 spec.
The 120's were incredibly noisy...even above the sound of three case fans and CPU and North bridge fan in a Lian Li aluminum case

The older 160 could barely be heard...oh well

C.C.

what brand? prob maxtor or fujitsu or samsung.