Currently running a WD 4 TB red farmed from a My book studio which was dirt cheap . When I had an AMD Nano Gpu I used to think it was quiet. I now have an MSI 1080 and noticed it is quite loud. Case is an R5 with a Noctua cooler and fans (all inaudible). At first I thought a fan was noisy then I realised it was the 4tb red.
The only drive I know for a fact is quiet is a 1tb Green. Anyone got any input ? It is just for storing stuff locally, everything is backed up to a 'cloud' storage via work. The other drives are a 256gb NVME m.2 and a Sandisk Extreme Pro 480gb.
How is the drive mounted in the case?
Basically like this :
That is a Fractal Spec R2 but I have a ln R5 now and used sane foam setup with hard drive cages removed. The SSD drives sit round the back on the R5 and wanted the padded panels...have just used the foam on the floor of the R5 like the R2 in the pic. Not taken a pic of it yet.
If you have a free 5.25 bay, you could try rubber bands like this:
But it might really be just the HDD.
Ha, excellent idea. I did that once to quieten a Raptor down...in an Antec Titan , but used Elastic. Worked mostly. Raptor was hideously noisy.
Other drive was a Samsung and totally quiet.
Yeah, I still have a velociraptor in an external USB3 case. Put that on a wooden table and it sounds like a warp core freaking out. xD
...and they were quieter than the Raptor too. The 36gb Raptor sounded like someone sawing through cardboard boxes with an electric bread knife.
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I need about 2tb at least. Bit too pricey.
Yeah, but if you want actual silence, then the only options that you really have for solid choices are to move the hdd(s) somewhere else (nas in another room) or only use solid state.
Yes..good point . I don't know what it going on in the rest of the world but HDD and SSD prices are going up...I bought my son a 1tb Toshiba hdd for £34 and they are now £45 too. Which makes big SSD purchases even more expensive . 960gb Sandisk were frequently on offer for £145 in June . Now they are £200 +
They are still going down in the US. At least for SSDs. HDDs have been more or less stagnant for years.
