Silent Hard Drives? (2.5 form factor)
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Solved by Captain_WD,
Hey so I unfortunately have a very loud toshiba hard drive on my laptop, and I was wondering does Western Digital and or Seagate have silent hard drives in this form factor? Obviously the tick of death is not going to be silent but I mean before the tick of death. Anything like that?
edit - apparently ssds are hard drives... wthhhh... so the proper term is mechanical drive apparently sorry about that
Hey Yames,
Here are my two cents on this:
There are four basic types of storage drives:
- HDD (Hard Disk Drives) which is your basic mechanical storage drive with a spinning platter and a read/write head hovering over it.
- SSD (Solid State Drives) which have zero moving parts and store data on cells via electrical charges.
- SSHD (Solid State Hybrid Drives) which is basically a regular HDD with a small (usually 8GB) SSD that is used for caching the HDD for better performance on the more frequently used applications and files
- Dual Drives are basically a separate HDD and SSD in one form factor, working independently but through one SATA port.
Out of all these, a SSD would naturally be the most quiet one since it doesn't have any moving parts, hence nothing to produce sounds, but are the most expensive ones. Out of the other three, it would really depend from drive to drive. The general rule of thumb is the higher the performance and rpm, the higher the noise levels.
I can suggest checking out WD Black2, WD Green, WD Blue and WD Blue SSHD as more quiet but still good and fast options:
WD Black2 (a Dual Drive): http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=Cv1hcc
WD Green (this should have the lowest noise levels): http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=8R53Vk
WD Blue SSHD: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=jGdqLj
Captain_WD.
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