Thank you. Being hearing challenged, I doubt the noise would bother me- but I need to be considerate of other people in the house. Everyone, thanks for the viewpoints. Robert At 10:07 PM 3/24/2003 -0500, you wrote: >Hi Robert, > >I do not use a raid array but I do have 2 PCs with 6 hard drives >constantly working sitting right next to me. As I understand it this is >similar to a >raid server. The noise level is not much greater than your average home >pc. Between the fans and the hard drives I never notice it, but then again I >do enjoy the sound of a PC performing my every whim. Unless your raid >server is in your bedroom I wouldn't worry much about the noise. However >if your raid server is in your bedroom I would recommend sometime away >from the PC :=3D) To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk