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8 platters? Seems like it might be extra loud... Speaking of which.. what is a good hard drive that is above 1tb that is extra loud? I want my kids to grow up
by esaym 9y ago
8 platters? Seems like it might be extra loud...
Speaking of which.. what is a good hard drive that is above 1tb that is extra loud? I want my kids to grow up with a loud hard drive just like I did....
- Veratyr 9y agoThe Toshiba X300 series is pretty loud but dense and cheap.
- amigoingtodie 9y agoWith an MFM controller card?
- rzzzt 9y agoAnd a stepper motor for head stack positioning.
- jackfraser 9y agoYou could tell _exactly_ what it was loading...
- PascLeRasc 9y agoAny Seagate 7.2k will do the trick for you.
- gcp 9y agoThe Barracuda Pro 10TB is reportedly pretty quiet. I'd hope so, as I've got one coming in.
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- almostorganized 9y agoIve had good success with the newer seagate ironwolf ones, very audible to the next room (open door), especially with random io
- PascLeRasc 9y agoI was going to say the opposite - recently deployed 12x 10TB Ironwolf Pros and I can't hear them above the Synology's fans.
- CSDude 9y agoI bought WD Red and can hear Synology and it both :(
- PascLeRasc 9y agoMy Synology is rather loud I'll admit, but at least it's two bigger 120mm fans so the sound isn't too high-pitched. Have you tried turning the profile to quiet on DSM?
- zlynx 9y agoI've got six WD Reds and can't hear them at all. I put them in a Fractal Design R5 silent case. :) It's a home NAS but I figure I can shut it down to replace a drive. No need for drive bays, neat as they are.
- stordoff 9y agoRunning WD Reds in my Synology (DS415play/4TB drives), and I can tell when the nightly backup starts because I hear the drives pick up. Granted I'm only a couple of feet away, and only notice when the room is otherwise silent, but definitely audible.
- fencepost 9y agoI believe the Black drives have a reputation for being pretty noisy.
- devonkim 9y agoThe WD 1 TB Black drive I bought in 2009 (and still works great) is rather quiet to my ears and I'm a complete PC silence freak to the point I bought a liquid cooled 1080 Ti to avoid the cooling fans from running on the video card itself.
- ianai 9y agoCan vouch. They're awesome but loud about it.
- elorant 9y agoTry a Seagate Constellation. I bought one a year ago and the damn thing was so loud that I had to hack the box by installing elastic cord to keep the HDD floating and fixed.
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- kyriakos 9y agowhy would you want to do that to them? I remember listening to the sounds of the audio tape drive loading games in my 8bit 64kbyte RAM home computer. I don't wish my kids will ever have to go through that :)
- chewyland 9y agoMy A501 expansion for my Amiga 500 so quiet. Not mechanical, of course, but I'll never forget that dreary Winnipeg bus ride to pick one up.
- amorphid 9y agoMy first hard drive (8.9MB, 5.25", double height) was loud, but it was too slow to be obnoxious :)
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- yeukhon 9y agoHGST is a great brand, which incidentally has been acquited by WD a couple years ago. I highly recommend it.
- brian_herman 9y agoJust record a noisy hard drive and play it through the speakers :D
- kpcyrd 9y agoUse one of the cheap external disk cases and make sure it's on the desk.
- Neil44 9y agoWD Red and Red Pro's are loud.
- wazoox 9y agoNo actually they're very quiet, thanks to helium and its doubly supported disk axis. Power consumption is also much lower than air drives.
- dom0 9y agoJust hook an old Quantum Fireball or something similar up to the power, they spin up with no controller connected.