[ale] Quiet spinning drives?

[Alex Carver]

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.