On 12/26/2010 06:09 PM, Brent Busby wrote: > > SATA drives make almost no noise. You'll get more noise from your > processor and power supply fan than you ever will from even five or six > SATA disks. I recommend reading silentpcreview.com and take their recommendations if you want a quiet computer. Once I got a quiet case, quieted down the case fans, CPU fans, and the power supply, the hard drives were the noisiest part of my system. The best thing by far is to decouple the hard drive from the case. Suspending the drives in elastic bands as shown here is very cheap and very effective: http://www.silentpcreview.com/article8-page2.html This worked brilliantly for me and now my computer is almost silent in a quiet room. Or just laying the hard drive upside-down on foam rubber on the floor of the case works as well, too. This article should be interesting as well if you are interested in quiet drives: http://www.silentpcreview.com/Recommended_Hard_Drives But in general they recommend notebook hard drives if you want a quiet drive and low heat. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
