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Posted by GT on January 20, 2006, 7:42 am
Please log in for more thread options able to hear a Western Digital Caviar (WD2500JB - in 200GB or 250GB) when inside a PC case, under a desk in a silent room. Now, nowhere is ever silent, but this room is truely quiet - I have designed it this way. The only thing that would stop me hearing a pin drop is the carpet! So will I be irritated by a whine from this drive, or should I get another whisper quiet Samsung Spinpoint? I am very sensitive to (irritated by) PC 'hum' and hard disk 'whine', so have spent a great deal of effort in silencing my PC with zalman equipment from QuietPC. The only noise I hear is makes is a faint spinning from the Samsung Spinpoint drive and the clicking sound of the heads (which is fine). The quiet buzz produced by my desk lamp is louder than my PC. However, I've filled my HD with junk and I don't want to delete most of it, so I need another hard disk. I have had bad experiences with several Maxtors in the past and very good experience with Western Digital drives, so I would like a WD drive. I asked the other day about hard disk sound levels and Paul pointed me to http://www.storagereview.com/comparison.html with a warning that raw decibel readings tell you nothing about the pitch or annoyance of the noise produced. According to the readings on that website, there is very little difference in sound levels, so I would like some real world opinion on the noise levels between the Samsung Spinpoint hard disk and the Western Digital Caviar hard disk. The day WD can produce a silent and affordable Raptor, then I'll buy it!! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Erick on January 20, 2006, 8:35 am
Please log in for more thread options Although most of today's drives are pretty quiet. You might want to coinsider getting a 5.25" bay kit to mount the hard drive in that's designed for cooling and quiet. A good example can be found at http://www.xoxide.com/nexus-disktwin-dampener-black.html. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Spajky on January 23, 2006, 10:43 am
Please log in for more thread options On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:42:36 -0000, "GT"
> So will I be
>irritated by a whine from this drive, .... >I am very sensitive to (irritated by) PC 'hum' and hard disk 'whine', >The day WD can produce a silent and affordable Raptor, then I'll buy it!!
the ultimate solution to HD 'whine' is on my site under comp/mods ... -- Regards , SPAJKY ® mail addr. @ my site @ http://www.spajky.vze.com "Tualatin OC-ed / BX-Slot1 / inaudible setup!" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by JuJuBeed on January 23, 2006, 1:52 pm
Please log in for more thread options Go get one of those boots to put on it. It might not be called a boot, but
it looks like a rubber glove. It covers the whole drive, and I believe it is really supposed to reduce vibration. I have one on my western digital. It helped reduce noise a little bit. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by CBFalconer on January 23, 2006, 3:01 pm
Please log in for more thread options JuJuBeed wrote:
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> Go get one of those boots to put on it. It might not be called a > boot, but it looks like a rubber glove. It covers the whole drive, > and I believe it is really supposed to reduce vibration. I have > one on my western digital. It helped reduce noise a little bit. Boy, that must help keep it nice and cool. -- "If you want to post a followup via groups.google.com, don't use the broken "Reply" link at the bottom of the article. Click on "show options" at the top of the article, then click on the "Reply" at the bottom of the article headers." - Keith Thompson More details at: <http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/>
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> be able to hear a Western Digital Caviar (WD2500JB - in 200GB or 250GB)
> when inside a PC case, under a desk in a silent room. Now, nowhere is ever
> silent, but this room is truely quiet - I have designed it this way. The
> only thing that would stop me hearing a pin drop is the carpet! So will I
> be irritated by a whine from this drive, or should I get another whisper
> quiet Samsung Spinpoint?
>
> I am very sensitive to (irritated by) PC 'hum' and hard disk 'whine', so
> have spent a great deal of effort in silencing my PC with zalman equipment
> from QuietPC. The only noise I hear is makes is a faint spinning from the
> Samsung Spinpoint drive and the clicking sound of the heads (which is
> fine). The quiet buzz produced by my desk lamp is louder than my PC.
> However, I've filled my HD with junk and I don't want to delete most of
> it, so I need another hard disk.
>
> I have had bad experiences with several Maxtors in the past and very good
> experience with Western Digital drives, so I would like a WD drive. I
> asked the other day about hard disk sound levels and Paul pointed me to
> http://www.storagereview.com/comparison.html with a warning that raw
> decibel readings tell you nothing about the pitch or annoyance of the
> noise produced. According to the readings on that website, there is very
> little difference in sound levels, so I would like some real world opinion
> on the noise levels between the Samsung Spinpoint hard disk and the
> Western Digital Caviar hard disk.
>
> The day WD can produce a silent and affordable Raptor, then I'll buy it!!
>