[ale] Quiet spinning drives?

[Jim Kinney]

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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