[juneau-lug] Re: Quiet hard drives

  • From: Phil Witt <phillipw@xxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 08:24:59 -0800

I just ordered a hard drive for my tivo.  The tivocommunity.com forums 
get this question a lot.
I think the samsung drives are good for low noise. The Seagate Barracuda 
drives have been mentioned before too.
People have mentioned running additional commands on the hard drives to 
put them in 'quiet' mode.
Also the concept of buying a slower spinning (5400rpm) instead of the 
faster spinning (7200 rpm) to keep the noise down ... seems .... sound.


Tony Taylor (ISD) wrote:

>http://www.endpcnoise.com/cgi-bin/e/00020.html
>
>This is a review of the 80 Gig Seagate Barracuda IV Quiet Hard Drive. 
>Seems like it might not be a bad drive, and isn't a terrible price.
>
>Of course, YMMV.  I have no real experience with quiet computers.  I've 
>gone deaf to compensate.
>
>                       - Tony
>
>James Zuelow wrote:
>  
>
>>Anyone have advice for finding QUIET hard drives? I keep a machine in the
>>living room at home, and it is noisy. I bought one of those Costco 20GB
>>drives a few years ago (Western Digital IDE) and it has a high pitched
>>whine that just cuts through the case and computer hutch.  It sounds like
>>a fan that is out of alignment, and in fact for a long time I thought it
>>was a fan making the noise.
>>
>>I'd like to replace the drive with something quieter, but before I go
>>shopping I thought I'd ask around about models people might know of that
>>are quieter than others.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>James
>>
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