noiseless hard drive?

anybody know of a noiseless hard drive?

I have a toshiba MK4025GAS hard drive, recommended on the silentpcreview forum. But it makes a faint noise, (even when idle) and when something makes a faint noise, I can hear it from far away. And I don`t like the noise.

(I know, all hard drives I have ever used have made a noise. I doubt anybody has a good solution, but don`t just write telling me that. I have been building my own computers for 10 years. I know)

I may look at a silent enclosure. But am wondering what ideas people have. There are no fans in my system, it is noiseless apart from this unpleasant(for me) hard drive

 

IMO as long as it contains any spinning part, it WILL make noise!! How about a SDD?

 

yea. the flash hard drives are expensive though, but the question is how much do you value silence?

 

if you don't want to spend over $1000 for 64GB SSD. you can try 100GB 4200RPM HDD from Toshiba. They are almost silent, maybe less than 20dBa. Of coz, they are slow too.

You just can't have value, silence and performance all together, but at least you can choose two out of the three.

 

Yeah noting except for a SDD is going to be totally silent. And especially with a notebook. Im kind of the same way, I am very sensitive to noise, but not to the degree that you are from the sound of it. But the only way you're going to get something that will likely meet your standards would be an SDD.

 

It is not SDD, it is SSD (Solid State Drive)....

 

wow, sorry forgetting about this thread.. I just found it searching for my name(the google search bar at the top), I should do that more often on the site!

I will indeed be going for an SSD
Low capacity. < 4GB. There are many flash modules . Compact Flash cards, or IDE Flash Modules. Not too expensive.

I will have silent computers near me.. Have to be outside the case 'cos there are no cheap generic fanless cases are there?

And noisy computers with large capacity hard drives downstairs behind closed doors, so I can't hear them. I will trust them for data storage..

 

how about we rename them to
1.)SSDD = Solid State Disk Drive
2.)SSHDD = Solid State Hard Disk Drive
3.)SSSDD = Solid State Soft Disk Drive

on secong thought you and the standards committee got it right..

SSD does have a ceertain ring to it!

 

But there's no disk in a SSD. Therfore, SSHDD and SSSDD would be incorrect. Maybe SSHD or SSSD... but I digress.

 

None of the names should have Drive in them. Drive is a mechanical term, Solid State Memory or something along those lines would be an effective name. A hard drive is a mechanical device, in such case the word drive can be applied.

 

It's not a disk.
It is a drive.

The word drive does not imply mechanics.

Drive can be energy, determination. Something that keeps something going. Doesn't imply mechanical

The expression "Graphics engine" does not imply something mechanical.

The word "Vehicle" does not imply mechanical. It can mean a conduit. One could say that the graphics engine is the vehicle that really drives the machine..

It is incorrect to say DISK here. I first realised that when reading stephen fry's blog.. He said a machine had no disk drive(when it had a SSD). Makes sense, there is no disk in there

The D in SSD stands for drive. And that's the bottom line [too] !

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820609303 60gb, 419$

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820609304 120gb, 639$

the 120gb one is the best bang for the buck. quite fast, silent, rather cheap

 

Originally the term drive was implemented in the world of computers due to the fact that the disk was driven in the hard disk. Same idea for floppy disk drives etc... The term drive is used incorrectly, it is a physical term that was used for actual mechanical devices such as the floppy drive or hard disk, Energy used in memory is not driven, it's a current. Whether people agree or not does not matter, the word drive is incorrectly used in Solid State Drive, it has no moving parts. Not that the name will be changed, we've been using disk drives for decades. Drive has just carried over after using it for so long.

 

Was going to say the exact same thing.

 

try a western digital scorpio. quietest drive i have owned. i never hear it even when it's working hard.