[ale] Quiet spinning drives?

[Alex Carver]

That's an SSD which I don't think is going to apply in this case to a
single-drive system (OS, data and swap).  The concern in this case is
the data rewrites (especially swap) that would wear on an SSD.  That's
why I feel this machine really needs a spinning disk.


I just recently converted an old laptop to SSD using an mSATA card with
an mSATA to PCI adapter but that's a laptop that doesn't run
continuously so I'm not as concerned about SSD wear as I would this server.

On 2017-02-14 12:07, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
> 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. 
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