--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The "300" G hard drive of my new PC is > otherwise rather silent, but when it > reads and writes, it makes quite an > irritating sound. It's interesting that > I only notice the sound when I do > "saMyama" on it. > Some reading and/or writing seems to > be happening almost all the time, even > when no application is running. Of course > there are some 50 processes running, > but checking the task manager doesn't > seem to indicate, at least most of the time, > other activity than the System Idle process. > > The drive is Seagate. I've been quite > satisfied with most of my previous Seagates. > For instance one 40 G Barracuda is so > silent that the reading/writing is barely > noticeable. > I wonder if for instance a Western Digital > is nowadays more silent than a Seagate.
The folks who built my system, http://www.endpcnoise.com/ , are always up on who has the quietest hard drives, and right now, they're selling Western Digital. They also sell hard drive enclosures, which may offer some relief for your current hard drive. Also, you could make an enclosure for the computer, itself. The stone guys just installed the granite on my new desk the other day, and it's amazing how much more quiet my already quiet computer is, now that the tower is inside a box with only one side open. http://alex.natel.net/misc/desk.jpg The computer is in the right side, and the back is completely open, so heat build-up should not be an issue. The quiet whirring of the cooling fans is now muffled and clearly only emanating from the rear of the desk. The desk is made of MDF, which is very dense and explains why it's so good at deadening the sound.
