Quietest Hard Drives?

[Woolen Horde]

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]

Seagate Barracuda series. Quietest drives I've ever heard, once you use the audio utility on 'em.

[Lunch of Kong]

seagate barracuda

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

[XPav]

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]

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).