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8 platters? Seems like it might be extra loud...

Speaking of which.. what is a good hard drive that is above 1tb that is extra loud? I want my kids to grow up with a loud hard drive just like I did....

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Try a Seagate Constellation. I bought one a year ago and the damn thing was so loud that I had to hack the box by installing elastic cord to keep the HDD floating and fixed.

HGST is a great brand, which incidentally has been acquited by WD a couple years ago. I highly recommend it.

Just record a noisy hard drive and play it through the speakers :D

why would you want to do that to them?

I remember listening to the sounds of the audio tape drive loading games in my 8bit 64kbyte RAM home computer. I don't wish my kids will ever have to go through that :)

My A501 expansion for my Amiga 500 so quiet.

Not mechanical, of course, but I'll never forget that dreary Winnipeg bus ride to pick one up.

I believe the Black drives have a reputation for being pretty noisy.

Can vouch. They're awesome but loud about it.

The WD 1 TB Black drive I bought in 2009 (and still works great) is rather quiet to my ears and I'm a complete PC silence freak to the point I bought a liquid cooled 1080 Ti to avoid the cooling fans from running on the video card itself.

My first hard drive (8.9MB, 5.25", double height) was loud, but it was too slow to be obnoxious :)

Ive had good success with the newer seagate ironwolf ones, very audible to the next room (open door), especially with random io

I was going to say the opposite - recently deployed 12x 10TB Ironwolf Pros and I can't hear them above the Synology's fans.

I bought WD Red and can hear Synology and it both :(

My Synology is rather loud I'll admit, but at least it's two bigger 120mm fans so the sound isn't too high-pitched. Have you tried turning the profile to quiet on DSM?

I've got six WD Reds and can't hear them at all.

I put them in a Fractal Design R5 silent case. :)

It's a home NAS but I figure I can shut it down to replace a drive. No need for drive bays, neat as they are.

Running WD Reds in my Synology (DS415play/4TB drives), and I can tell when the nightly backup starts because I hear the drives pick up. Granted I'm only a couple of feet away, and only notice when the room is otherwise silent, but definitely audible.

Just hook an old Quantum Fireball or something similar up to the power, they spin up with no controller connected.

Use one of the cheap external disk cases and make sure it's on the desk.

No actually they're very quiet, thanks to helium and its doubly supported disk axis. Power consumption is also much lower than air drives.

With an MFM controller card?

And a stepper motor for head stack positioning.

You could tell _exactly_ what it was loading...

The Toshiba X300 series is pretty loud but dense and cheap.

Any Seagate 7.2k will do the trick for you.

The Barracuda Pro 10TB is reportedly pretty quiet. I'd hope so, as I've got one coming in.

WD Red and Red Pro's are loud.

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