Silent Hard Disk

[Matan_BS]

Hi all,

Since I am a silence freek , I am looking for a perfect silent HD

I am looking for the best sulution possible for home computer that will be used for games, Office utilities & some internet surfing.(Note that I am using a passive garphic coller & a very low noise cage)

The disk I have in mind is 160GB 8MB Buffer & 7200 RPM (SATA2)

I understood Samsung & Seagate are quite silent.
Can any one help me figure out what is the model type I should look for?
from the above who is better (for my home needs)?
do you have any other alternative to offer ?

Thanks

Mat

[chilled]

This should help:
http://www.silentpcreview.com/

[RDL]

The Samsung Spinpoints are pretty quiet, and so are the Seagate Barracudas. Through personal choice on performance I would go for the Seagate, but the Samsung is probably fractionally quieter. Personal preference really, I wouldn't expect to hear it outside the case.

[Ramedge]

thought about getting a silencing kit for your hard drive?

[Matan_BS]

Thanks

Can you name the model type ?

[geoffcollins]

thought about getting a silencing kit for your hard drive?

This sounds like a better solution to me as then you can pick a high performance drive and get the benefits of that then work on making it quiet - rather than buying based on noise, which might end up being very slow.

[geoffcollins]

Thanks

Can you name the model type ?

Check these out:
Silentmaxx Aluminium HD-Silencer
Scythe Silent Box Heatlane HDD Enclosure

[squishy]

I'm a bit of a silence freak myself, but not as much as yourself, heh. I've recently bought the Samsung 160GB SATA (I) 8MB buffer 7,200 rpm (Spinspoint SP1614C) and I recommend it, I got it in Overclocker's this week only sales, but it's pretty cheap anyway, and to be honest, I've never heard it over the slight noise of my fans .

But of course, this could be being helped by my case's HD cradle with dampening where the HD is held, so you may also want to try out a hard drive silencer cradle or something

[Matan_BS]

Thanks

I got the picture.

I also recomend any one to check the following link:
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article82-page2.html

I think it give a clear view

MAT

[xms]

I've got a couple of Spinpoints in my PC at work that are fairly quiet.

[arthurleung]

I have 8 disks so I can't quiet my system down too much. the disks would overheat if I don't have dual 12cm fan blowing on them. Instead of quieting down the computer I just move them away. The noise is 10db less when the system is moved 3-4 metres away.

It is just impractical to try to reduce computer noise level down to a level that the computer is going to overheat and there is always something generating the noise, even it is not a moving part.

Get another system in the next room and boot the slient system through network

Hitachi and Samsung is probably as quiet as you can get out there. Basically it is quite impossible to quiet your whole computer system. My new rig is quite slient that I can actually hear the hissing of the PSU due to changing system load (I'm very sure its not the fan since it is in sync of my CPU load)

O.T. Or easier, get yourself a pair of sound isolating earphones. They're absolutely amazing, filtering bus/motorcycle noise when I'm on the street

[hardflipman]

check out www.storagereview.com if you are looking for info on the quietest, fatest drive etc