The hard drive needs to be at least 250GB. It doesn’t have to be eSATA, but it would be nice. Yours is the second reference I’ve heard of to the Western Digital Passport being quiet, so that’s a direction I can go in. After a Google search, I didn’t see much of a consensus on which external ...

I'm looking for a quiet external hard drive. Thanks.

Thanks for the thread jaganath. I just bought my sister's old iMac because it has no fans. It's a iMac (Summer 2001) G3, 600-MHz. Although I have seen other model iMacs with fans in them. This G3 looks like a television set. Besides a CRT monitor buzz which you would only hear if you put your ear up...

Your right. My sister's Ionic Breeze probably needs cleaning. 20dB at one meter was just a mental guess based on my regular use of a Bruel & Kjaer type 2203 sound meter. I purchased it just for sound testing computer components. Apple iMacs show that you can cool with convection alone. But I like th...

My sister's Ionic Breeze was making a continuous crackling sound of about 20dB at one meter. You couldn't hear it from far off. But this could be an issue for someone looking for total silence in a computer right next to them.