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Woolen Horde
11-19-2003, 10:08 PM
Okay, which manufacturer makes the quietest hard drives?

I've got a Maxtor right now, and I've heard that Maxtor are amongst the noiseiest. I'm trying to make my Ideq box as quiet as possible.

The only requirement I have that it's ATA-133 or SATA with 8MB of cache, and at least 80GB in size.

Any opinions?
Jason McCullough
11-19-2003, 10:30 PM
Seagate Barracuda series. Quietest drives I've ever heard, once you use the audio utility on 'em.
Lunch of Kong
11-19-2003, 11:33 PM
seagate barracuda

edit: what acoustic utility are you talking about? there's a way to make them even quieter?
XPav
11-19-2003, 11:50 PM
The Seagate 7200.7's are that bad either.

I hear the Samsungs are good.

Maxtor are loud.

But I just read silentpcreview.com for that stuff.
Jason McCullough
11-20-2003, 09:16 AM
seagate barracuda

edit: what acoustic utility are you talking about? there's a way to make them even quieter?

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Silent-PC/

It's in the files section there; it lets you trade off performance (not much) for noise (lots of benefit).