[ale] Quiet spinning drives?

[DJ-Pfulio]

A 32G SSD (m.2 form) is just $30.  These are silent. You could use a USB
interface with it if there are internal plugs.
or put in an internal m.2 card adapter pretty cheap.

64G version for $5 more:
https://www.amazon.com/MyDigitalSSD-Super-Boot-Drive-42mm/dp/B00KBZH78W/

On 02/14/2017 01:50 PM, 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.