[mythtv-users] Fast Quiet Sata drive?

[Ed W]

On 15/03/2011 14:25, Ken Mandelberg wrote:
> Right now I'm running an Hitachi 2TB drive ( Deskstar 7K2000 
> HDS722020ALA330) over usb on my living room backend/frontend. This is a 
> really noisy drive.
> 
> I would like to replace it with something quieter, but I do record as 
> many as 4 HD Mpg streams at once, and can't afford to lose much performance.
> 
> Any suggestion on a 2TB drive that would be significantly quieter but 
> still have sufficient performance?

Although more expensive I find the 2.5" drives MUCH quieter.  I think
the largest you can get is around 1TB at present, but even 2x 2.5"
drives is smaller and I think quieter than 1x 3.5" drive?

Note I have spent many years building silent systems and they all really
seem to fail in various ways. Beware heat killing your drive with any of
these enclosures, however, without an enclosure the drive will nearly
always be too loud (if you are fussy)

Another option is a small silent boot drive and mount the main storage
somewhere you can't hear it over gigabit...

Good luck

Ed W

P.S.  The F3/F4 drives are pretty quiet for 3.5" drives.  I have around
8x them in one of my machines