Re: Quiet HDD (was Quiet cases)

2003-03-11 Thread Mike Dresser
On 10 Mar 2003, Fraser Campbell wrote: For cases I love Antec. I recently built a system with the SX835II from Antec (see http://www.antec-inc.com/pro_details_enclosure.php?ProdID=80843). It is hard to tell if the PC is on despite the CPU fan, video GPU fan, dual fan power supply + 2 case

Re: Quiet HDD (was Quiet cases)

2003-03-11 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Joao Pedro Clemente [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030310 17:20 PST]: I just got a seagate barracuda ata IV (ST340016A) and it's freaking silent. It's almost eerie; it sounds like a solid state drive or something! In terms of cost, I traded a few GB to get back a handful of dB; I think it

Quiet HDD (was Quiet cases)

2003-03-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
I just got a seagate barracuda ata IV (ST340016A) and it's freaking silent. It's almost eerie; it sounds like a solid state drive or something! In terms of cost, I traded a few GB to get back a handful of dB; I think it was worth it =) good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- They

Re: Quiet HDD (was Quiet cases)

2003-03-10 Thread Joao Pedro Clemente
I just got a seagate barracuda ata IV (ST340016A) and it's freaking silent. It's almost eerie; it sounds like a solid state drive or something! In terms of cost, I traded a few GB to get back a handful of dB; I think it was worth it =) Good! I am thinking of getting one of those after

Re: Quiet HDD (was Quiet cases)

2003-03-10 Thread Fraser Campbell
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 18:49, Vineet Kumar wrote: I just got a seagate barracuda ata IV (ST340016A) and it's freaking silent. It's almost eerie; it sounds like a solid state drive or something! I love these drives, they run quiet, they run cool and they are just fine performance wise. I have