Are some hard drives louder than others?

absolutely! ! ! !

some hard drives are WAY WAY louder than others, especially when we start including SCSI drives.

what you usually are hearing on a good working hard drive, is the bearings. i mean at 7200rpm, you'd expect some parts to do so serious vibrating.

recently, something called "fluid bearings" have become widely available. this gel goes in place of where the ball bearings would be, and runs much much much quieter. if you want a quiet drive, you will almost surely want fluid bearings.

also, most drives will state how much noise they make on the box, or at least on the extended product info sheet. sometimes, you'll find ya have to dig a little, but the good quiet ones will usually advertise that feature for you right on the box. whatever makes the least decibels (db or dbi), wins!

Yes there are some drives that are louder than others. The noise can be caused by anything from cheap bearings in the motor to the speed at which the drive spins. A 5400 rpm drive will more often than not be quieter than a 7200 rpm drive, and likewise a 10,000 rpm SCSI drive will be louder than a 7200 rpm drive. Or the drive could be going bad.

Reccommendation: Buy a good quality drive and mount it on rubber rails to absorb vibrations.

Yes some of the older drives can be very loud. Most of the name brand new IDE and SATA drives are pretty quiet. Such as Western Digital and Matrox. The speed of the drives will determine some of the noise as well as the type of drive. In my experience IDE is louder than SATA drives. Also have experienced some of the slower drives 7200 rpm andless are louder than the newer faster drives. Hope this helps

Yes they are old ones seem to be a bit noisier and the harder they work the lauder they get. Inside are powerfulls magnet and the hold the writing arms, also the arm produces an eletromagnetic difference to move the arm back and fort so that causes that rattling noise. Sometimes the bearings go but by then there some major problems (damage to data etc.). the new HDD are fittet with rubber mounts and internal dampenig Material that is why they so much quierter. I love it when I can hear something is at work.

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Last year I bought a 5400 rpm / 400 GB Seagate hard drive for dirt cheap, and the thing doesn't make a whisper. Seriously, I wouldn't think it was running at all except that I can write and retrieve all of my files.

There are two kinds of noise: the whir of the spinning drive, and the crick-rrr-crick of the read/write head. Generally, the latter is the more distracting sound. Sorry, but I don't know of a resource that rates hard drives on these criteria... best to go by word of mouth.

Cheaper is usually louder. But the noise from the fans is usualy louder than the hard drive.

The speed of the hard drive "7200" "5400rpm" etc... There are hard drives now a days that have a liquid coating inside of them that lets them release less noise. Try Seagate hard drives, those are the most reliable hard drives tooting a very very quiet one with it... Also try Hatachi hard drives & Maxtor ones.

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Hard drives in older PCs can be quite noisy at times. The latest HDs tend to be much quieter, in fact, the latest PCs are really very quiet, all together, in comparison to the older models.

i know some are louder than others i dont know what determines how loud or quiet they are. i know the more you pay the more quiet they become