On Sun 06 Oct 2024 at 03:02:13 (-0700), Will Mengarini wrote: > * Henrik Ahlgren <pa...@seestieto.com> [24-10/06=Sun 11:20 +0300]: > > On Sat, 2024-10-05 at 08:40 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > >> However, head movement isn't always audible. 3½" and 5¼" drives aren't > >> usually audible, although I've had a few very noisy 5¼ drives. And of > >> course SSDs are utterly silent. > > > > I wonder how ancient drives you are using? Have there even been any > > mainstream 5¼ inch form factor HDDs manufactured since the Quantum > > Bigfoot in the 1990s? I remember those drives being quite loud indeed. > > This is a 3.5 inch drive from a desktop tower that was built in 2007.
You can normally feel the vibration from the heads even when it's mounted in an enclosure, particularly at spinup. Cheers, David.
