[mythtv-users] Fast Quiet Sata drive?

[John Drescher]

>>> I've always wondered about that.  Most if not all noise I get from hard
>>> drives is from head access, not rotational. So how does the slower
>>> rotational speed help on noise?
>>
>> I find it just the opposite. Very little noise from heads but
>> sometimes rotational noise.
>>
> Also the head noise is I find generally not bothersome but the high
> pitched noise from the spinning goes right through me.
>

On top of this for head noise you can usually set acoustic parameters
using hdparm to tell the drive to seek slower and thus quieter.

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John M. Drescher