Quiet hdd

[Xv Ghostly vX]

I'm going to have a 256 GB ssd as my boot drive and I want HDDs to carry the bulk of my storage. I wish I could have several TB of SSD storage but it is too expensive.

 

I know that there are no HDDs on the market as quiet as an SSD. What are the highest quality and quietest HDDs on the market. I plan to buy 2 HDDs with either 2 or 3 TB each and run them in RAID 5 or 10.

[Majestic]

Western Digital RED's are pretty quiet, but you can't compete with 0dB ofc.

[W-L]

I'm going to have a 256 GB ssd as my boot drive and I want HDDs to carry the bulk of my storage. I wish I could have several TB of SSD storage but it is too expensive.

 

I know that there are no HDDs on the market as quiet as an SSD. What are the highest quality and quietest HDDs on the market. I plan to buy 2 HDDs with either 2 or 3 TB each and run them in RAID 5 or 10.

 

As Majestic said WD red's will work well in multi-drive configurations but if you plan to do raid 5 or 10 i believe the minimum number of drives needed for Raid 5 is three HDD and Raid 10 four HDD

[Majestic]

As Majestic said WD red's will work well in multi-drive configurations but if you plan to do raid 5 or 10 i believe the minimum number of drives needed for Raid 5 is three HDD and Raid 10 four HDD

 

You have to have a redundant drive. Pretty sure you can run Raid5 on two drives. Raid 5 just works better with more drives though, because with 3 drivers you have 66% capacity, four drives 75% of total. And so forth. 2 Drives means only 50% capacity.

[Xv Ghostly vX]

Western Digital RED's are pretty quiet, but you can't compete with 0dB ofc.

 

As Majestic said WD red's will work well in multi-drive configurations but if you plan to do raid 5 or 10 i believe the minimum number of drives needed for Raid 5 is three HDD and Raid 10 four HDD

 

So there's nothing better than WD Reds? Nothing at all?

[Majestic]

No idea, I haven't tested all hard drives. But from my personal experience, those drivers are the quietest drives i've ever owned. And reviews agree with me.

[W-L]

You have to have a redundant drive. Pretty sure you can run Raid5 on two drives. Raid 5 just works better with more drives though, because with 3 drivers you have 66% capacity, four drives 75% of total. And so forth. 2 Drives means only 50% capacity.

Raid 5 should require three at minimum since if one fails it relies on at least two others drive to be able to rebuilt the data, and yes the more the better since you can have more capacity and more room for failures. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

 

 

So there's nothing better than WD Reds? Nothing at all?

For multi-drive configs the WD red's are one the best for reliability and sound since they tune themselves in regard to the surrounding environment to reduce vibration to help with lifespan and in turn noise. 

 

If you have plans to run just a single drive a HDD silencer is an option if you want to lessen the noise and make it visually more appealing.

[Xv Ghostly vX]

Raid 5 should require three at minimum since if one fails it relies on at least two others drive to be able to rebuilt the data, and yes the more the better since you can have more capacity and more room for failures. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

 

 

For multi-drive configs the WD red's are one the best for reliability and sound since they tune themselves in regard to the surrounding environment to reduce vibration to help with lifespan and in turn noise. 

 

If you have plans to run just a single drive a HDD silencer is an option if you want to lessen the noise and make it visually more appealing.

 

Thanks. And I plan to use these for gamng as well as other stuff. A lot of people are saying tat the reds are slow and I should get the blacks instead. But the blacks are noisy. 

 

Is setting the reds up in raid 5 or 10 really that much slower than having blacks in raid 5 or 10 or even raid 0.

[W-L]

Thanks. And I plan to use these for gamng as well as other stuff. A lot of people are saying tat the reds are slow and I should get the blacks instead. But the blacks are noisy. 

 

Is setting the reds up in raid 5 or 10 really that much slower than having blacks in raid 5 or 10 or even raid 0.

 

The Red drives are designed more for NAS environments running 24 hours a day if needed but lack some of the performance of the Black drives. The issue is lifespan and reliability in multi-drive configs since the Red drives are more tuned for having multiple drives stacked together they will work better in those environments compared to the Black drives while giving off less noise, and less prone to possible failure.

 

As for difference in the actual performance of the raid array with those drives, I'm not too familiar with that but from my knowledge it depends more on the controller than anything else since Raid 5 and 10 configs require a fair amount of data processing.