<html><head></head><body><div>If you turn up the fan speed you won't hear the drive(s). If you run the fan long enough like that, you won't notice the drives when the fan runs at normal speeds</div><div><br></div><div>What? Speak louder!</div><div><br></div><div>:-)</div><div><br></div><div>Acer had a case with drive mounts to absorb the sound. The case was rather dense, plastic over steel. It made for a very quiet system. All the fans were large - 6" and up. I think I saw it originally at Frys. The mounting was basically a longer screw with a soft silicon grommet that prevented direct metal to metal contact between the screw head and the case.</div><div><br></div><div>On Tue, 2017-02-14 at 10:50 -0800, Alex Carver wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><pre>Anyone have a suggestion for a quiet spinning drive? I've got a few
that need to be replaced but due to a variety of factors an SSD may not
be the best option. I could potentially be swayed.
The machine is one of my home servers. It's always running but the disk
I/O isn't huge. It's not a fast machine so I don't need an ultra fast
drive. I'll have to add a SATA PCI card to it to support new drives anyway.
I was thinking one of the WD Blue 5400 RPM drives as they seem to be
fairly quiet from reviews. I also considered using a smaller 2.5" drive
instead of the 3.5" drive.
Capacity doesn't need to be huge, 500GB-1TB is more than sufficient for
this machine (it currently has two 8 GB drives). It's primary functions
are data collection (writing sensor data to various databases, currenly
using only 1 GB) and log storage from various devices (logs are rotated
so they don't consume large amounts of storage, about 100 MB).
Secondary function is serving that data either via web page or direct
database access. The web pages use only about 1 GB as well.
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