We reviewed a 400GB Samsung T shortly after we saw the WD. We have yet to see samples of their more recent 500GB (166GB platter) drives... and we also haven't seen WD's 166GB platter drives. No particular reason why besides the fact that we've had other priorities. Would you mind posting a link to ...

Tom's Hardware has the Samsung listed pretty high on their drive comparison chart:
http://www23.tomshardware.com/storage.html

Well, just to reply - I have a Dell like the one in this silentpcreview article: http://www.silentpcreview.com/article21-page1.html So my hard drives are mounted using the green plastic mounting thingies that the case comes with. I've noticed something strange - when I'm copying a file on the hard d...

I just made the mistake myself of trying to quite my system before I figured out what was really making the noise. I (foolishy) decided that it was the heat thingy on my cpu that was causing the problem. I researched it out, bought a cpu cooler, took out my cpu...and realized that there wasn't actua...

jldet5 wrote:Attach nexus heat sinks, a 5 volted 90cm fan...

That's going to be a rather large fan...

Would it seek noise really be affected by how they're mounted?

I also got the Western Digital WD5000KS (well, it's listed as the WD5000KSRTL at MicroCenter as is every 500gb Western Digital drive - but the drive itself says WD5000KS on it). And I to am a little under whelmed by the quietness of the drive. It was a pretty annoying seek/write noise when I hooked ...