[ale] [OT] Quiet Laptop hard drive ?

[Stephan Uphoff]

Dow Hurst wrote:
> Seagate has some nice noise reduced technology in their newer drives.  I don't 
> know about the competition.

They are making a lot of noise about the technology ... but the numbers
are not that good :-)

Then again they only make higher rpm laptop drives and no high rpm drive seems 
to be
as quiet as a low rpm laptop drive.

I am really just trying to optimize the noise parameter
(totally disregarding performance) and ordered a
	IBM  Hitachi Travelstar 80GN 40GB ATA6 2.5in 4200RPM Mobile Hard Drive
since it had the lowest noise spec if could find in the datasheets.

Thanks
	Stephan




> Dow
> 
> 
> Stephan Uphoff wrote:
> > One of my laptops had a hard drive crash (ca 3 feet :-) and I
> > need a replacement.
> > 
> > Can anyone recommend a quiet replacement drive ?
> > 
> > This is for a fanless laptop and the only noise is produced
> > by the hard drive.
> > 
> > I would really like to do diskless over NFS/ipsec/802.11
> > using a small flash boot drive but don't have the time to 
> > set it up right now.
> > 
> > 	Stephan
> > 
> > 
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