Quiet hard drives

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I bought a Western Digital My Book Essential 1TB drive at the weekend. 80 quid from amazon.

It is whisper quiet, no fan. Looks quite nice too

This is the simple USB version, if you have a Mac, then make sure you repartition it, reformatting won't work.

If you have an Intel based mac then repartition as a GUID, if you have a G3/G4/G5 then use the Apple Partition Table.

I thought it might be worth listing other quiet drives for people with their music computer in the living room

 

[Anonymous]

zzgavin:
I bought a Western Digital My Book Essential 1TB drive at the weekend. 80 quid from amazon.

It is whisper quiet, no fan. Looks quite nice too

This is the simple USB version, if you have a Mac, then make sure you repartition it, reformatting won't work.

If you have an Intel based mac then repartition as a GUID, if you have a G3/G4/G5 then use the Apple Partition Table.

I thought it might be worth listing other quiet drives for people with their music computer in the living room

I have a WD My Book which is fine. Had it about a year with no problems.

I also bought last week (for back up) a 1TB Toshiba hard drive for £75 on Amazon. Cant comment on reliability yet but its definitely quiet.

 

[Anonymous]

I bought the WD Drive 1TB I used it maybe 5 times max for doing back ups etc and it broke. I since bought the apple time capsule which is good but I must admit that the wireless is slow.

ÿi'm holding out till the solid state drives become more available.

ÿ

When do you think the SSD will be more main stream?ÿ

 

[up the music]

http://www.silentpcreview.com/taxonomy/term/13 is a good resource for hard drive recommendations for silent PC use.

I use 2 Samsung Spinpoint F1 drives. Though I like them I'm itching to get a solid state drive for the operating system drive when prices fall some more.

 

[Anonymous]

@up the music, that is a really helpful review page

thanks

 

[Tonya]

For what it's worth, whenever I'm upgrading PC drives or Sky boxes, I install the Samsung SpinPoint drives wherever possible.
They really are prartically silent and I've never had one crash yet (fingers crossed!)

 

[joe23]

I had a WD MyBook that failed in a very short space of time. The problem with these things is that the drives generate quite a bit of heat into a plastic box with no fan, so the ventilation and heat dissipation isn't great.

I much prefer something along the lines of an Icy Box as an enclosure, which is aluminium so will dissipate heat much better. It also has better ventilation than the MyBook does using a wire mesh right the way around the edge. They also look rather good.

It also means you can add whichever drive you like. I'm a big fan of Samsung drives which are incredibly quiet.

 

[Anonymous]

Tonya:For what it's worth, whenever I'm upgrading PC drives or Sky boxes, I install the Samsung SpinPoint drives wherever possible.
They really are prartically silent and I've never had one crash yet (fingers crossed!)

Bad News im afraid......http://www.reviewcentre.com/reviews146378.html - the 1st case?