> I have three of the SP1614C drives (the SATA version) and find that > they are silent when idle, but I hear some vibrational noise when they > are writing. I use xfs on lvm over raid-5, and for some reason the > drives seem to seek a lot.
Raid 5? You afraid of loosing tv shows? Hehe. I'd say it's the raid causing the extra disk seeks, probably designed to be safer than sorry, so it writes a lot and caches less. Maybe adjustable though. Plus, you have 3 drives all doing I/O at the same time, so that's probably going to make them 3 times louder than a non-raid configuration accessing one drive. > Have people found that lining the sides of the case (on the inside) > with felt or something like that makes a big difference? Use Dynamat, it's designed to be a sound barrier, made out of cork, and probably more fire retardant than felt. Plus it has a sticky side for easy application. Though I've never done this to a computer, it works great on cars with lots of noisy speakers in them. :) > I hope they come out with a 200G version, as I have room for one > more... I wanna 400GB version. ;) -Kenneth
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