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Hd Advice

m8 · 2007-09-14 20:44:00

Hiya I'm in the process of setting up a NAS machine with Raid 5 but I need 4 IDE ATA HD's (not SATA). My question is what is the quietest make of IDE drives on the market...not an easy question I know but just looking for the general opinion of people who may have used a few makes of drives in builds. I hear the Seagate…

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14-09-2007 9:44pm

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m8

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Hiya
I'm in the process of setting up a NAS machine with Raid 5 but I need 4 IDE ATA HD's (not SATA).

My question is what is the quietest make of IDE drives on the market...not an easy question I know but just looking for the general opinion of people who may have used a few makes of drives in builds.

I hear the Seagate Barracuda are good and the Western Digital are the worst for noise...I would prefer a drive a little slower than a noisy one as my project priority is to safeguard the data and not speed of access, hence Raid 5.

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#2 14-09-2007 11:26pm
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In general Seagates and samsung spinpoints woulb be among the quietest drives on the market.

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