[ale] [OT] Quiet Laptop hard drive ?

[Stephan Uphoff]

> > Can anyone recommend a quiet replacement drive ?
> 
> I've been pretty happy with my Seagate Momentus. It's a 
> 5400 RPM drive so pretty speedy. I got the 2 meg cache
> version from newegg when it first came out. I think they
> have the 8-meg cache version available now. Anyhow it's
> very quiet, little bit of seek noise but the quietest
> drive I have used in a laptop so far.
> 
> There's a site silentpcreview.com which may have some
> more reviews of drives you could troll through, they
> focus on acoustics.

Thanks

silentpcreview.com had a nice article.

	http://www.silentpcreview.com/article145-page1.html

They recommend the Toshiba MK4025GAS as a quiet drive.

However they did not test the IBM travelstar series that
Robert Story is happy with

Robert Story wrote: 
> I like the IBM Tracelstar series...
	
And at least on the data sheets for the 80GN 40GByte model their
acoustic parameters are better than anything posted by the competition.   
	http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/80gn/80gn.htm

Thanks again for all replies

	Stephan