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Originally Posted by Dean
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Originally Posted by sperry
something tells me that $99 250GB drive isn't anywhere near as quiet and as fast as my 3 Barracudas. Drive noise is an underrated feature. With the drives I've got, I can run two computers at my feet that are quieter than my roommate's computer that's in the next room.
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OK, how did we get on quiet? $ vs. warranty... Oh well.
PC noise is mostly case design and fans, not HD. HD noise is pretty similar for a given RPM, and number of heads and form factor I believe. Want a quiet PC, spend money on good fans, and a case where the moving parts are in no way attached to the exterior portions of the case turning them into resonators. Also, put sound deadening foam on any internal surface you can. If you can somehow foam or rubber isolate drives and fans, the better. TechTV did a real good ultra quiet PC a year or so ago.
Back on HDs. I'm not sure your Barcuda is all the Scnizzle...
It may be good, but there are a bunch of faster SATA drives, and even one WD ATA/100 drive in most tests, including the gaming one. Not sure which model the 250s are, but since they are not SATA, they probably aren't super fast, but that is not why I mentioned them. Large capacity, cheap Yo.
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Ugh.. everything's a Federal Case w/ you isn't it.
We got on "quiet" because I brought it up. A large/cheap drive isn't going to perform as well acoustically as a more expensive drive... my point is that noise isn't usually a commented on feature.
As far as quiet PC's... I've got two that you can barely hear from about 2 feet away: Antec Sonata quiet PC cases, 180mm throttled case fans, throttling PCU fans, throttled low-speed CPU fans (one's actually a heat-pipe setup), two stage video card replacement fans, isolated hard drive enclosures, and to top it off, low noise hard drives: Seagate Barracuda 7200.7's. Sure they're not the biggest, or the absolute fastest, but they're *very* quick for the price, and damn near silent.