[ale] Quiet spinning drives?

[DJ-Pfulio]

Just to be clear, I'm not a big user of SSDs.  Only have 1 system with
an SSD.  R-pi uses a microSD card.  All the others are on spinning rust.
 Have some 320G seagates that will probably work longer than I'm alive,
but all the larger disks are non-seagates (all those seagates have died
prematurely).  I prefer Hitachi over all other brands (2TB and 4TB
models), but have Toshiba and WD disks spinning too.

Regardless, I'm religious about backups so any failure is just a slight
inconvenience. Nothing more.

However, if I need 128G or less in storage - sometimes you just don't
want more for a number of reasons, then SSDs are cheap enough.

If you want more storage than that, getting almost any 2.5in HDD will be
fine. None are really THAT noisy.  Picked up a 750G for a laptop and
don't hear it.

On 02/14/2017 05:24 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
> Hah , yeah, the fans are already pretty loud which is why it's sitting
> in a closet instead of out in the open. :)  But the thing that comes
> through the most is the whine of the drives.  They're both quite old.  I
> think I bought them in the very late 90's, but I'm fairly certain
> they're at least 15 years old so the bearings are probably a bit wobbly.
>  I don't think mounts are going to help me in this situation.  Right now
> both drives are suspended inside the case with long zip ties.
> 
> I may just give in and go SSD anyway but I had hoped there was some
> quiet-ish spinning drives around.  reviews never seem to comment on
> noise other than "quiet" without really being specific.
> 
> On 2017-02-14 13:29, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> 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
>>
>> What? Speak louder!
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> On Tue, 2017-02-14 at 10:50 -0800, Alex Carver wrote:
>>> 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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