Looking for something to cut down the noise my hard-drive makes... its a Western Digital 80 gig 7200rpm w/8 meg cache. I was looking at the quite pc enclosures "silent drive" but I've heard some bad reviews about it heating the hard-drive up alot more, that with a price of around £35 delivered doesn't appeal to me! So any suggestions, anyone using these sorts of things?
Cheers, Ethos


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The WD offerings are notoriously loud. Maxtor are a fair bit quieter and Seagate quieter still (they both use Fluid Dynamic Bearings unlike WD). You lose alittle perf by going for Seagate but they are reportedly the fastest quiet drives. Maxtor however have a little program you can use which allows you to select which mode to operate the drive in ...
From experience I'd suggest you get Seagate for a much quieter drive than your WD otherwise get a Maxtor and us eht e QUIET mode for silent operation. Of course all modern 5400rpm HD's are very quiet and reliable ... perf isn't as bad as many make out either!
Just a bit of a waste of 5.25" drive space and cabling nightmare!
