[mythtv-users] Fast Quiet Sata drive?

[John Drescher]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Calvin Harrigan
<charriglists at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On 3/15/2011 10:28 AM, John Drescher wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Ken Mandelberg<km at mathcs.emory.edu>  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?
>>>
>>
>> Samsung F4 or Hitachi 5K3000. They both spin at 5400 RPM instead of
>> 7200 so they will not make as much noise. They also have only 3
>> platters.
>>
>> John
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>
> 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.

John