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

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 c

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 ha

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 afte