Which is the quietest > 1TB drive today?

Faster_Madman · Post by **Faster_Madman** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 3:12 pm

What do we buy these days regarding big storage drives?
WD, Samsung or Seagate?

I just can't sort through all the information.

Please advise me.

Regards.

audiojar · Post by **audiojar** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:01 pm

The WD Green was just reviewed and it appears to be the quietest large drive.

SebRad · Post by **SebRad** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 6:49 am

Hi, if you have room and funds for it I highly recommend a Scythe Quiet Drive. By SPCRs review it takes 3-4dB(A) off the drive noise, enough to make a moderate drive quiet and a quiet drive really quiet. I've been using one for couple years and think it's great

Regards, Seb

Faster_Madman · Post by **Faster_Madman** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 10:13 am

Thanks, i went out to buy a couple of WD 1.5TB drives today but my hardware pusher was all out of those drives so i will have to wait til monday where he'll get some of the 64MB cache ones.

I'm thinking i'm gonna check out the Scythe Quiet Drive boxes, not that i find my current WD5000AAKS or WD6400 drives noisy but they do vibrate a bit too much for my liking when they get older, and it makes my P182 hum some, which bothers me.
Those Scythe boxes might help remedy that problem.

Kaleid · Post by **Kaleid** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 2:38 pm

Both Scythe Quiet Drive and Himuru needs to be softmounted.
I use foam under them and make sure they stay in one place with help from a hot glue gun.