Some "new" hdds are absolutely insanely loud.. I got some recently where having 3 in an otherwise quiet case made them very audible from the other end of the h

Some "new" hdds are absolutely insanely loud.. I got some recently where having 3 in an otherwise quiet case made them very audible from the other end of the house! I sent them back. Looking at the datasets for the WD Red Pro for example, there's idle/peak dBa from 34/38 for the 10TB to 20/32 for the 20TB 34 dBa idle. Are you kidding me? I ended up settling on the 18TB btw, as that's all there was at the time, 20/36 dBa.. and quite happy with them, and they're "normal loud". Noticable sitting next to the pc, more so when active, but not from more than a few metres away - and ZFS doing a scrub no longer sounds like a an industrial accident either, so thats nice.