I have the drive. It's fast and pretty quiet in my system EXCEPT for the seek which is quite loud, but not irritating. I can't hear the whine. I have looked at the bottom to remove the screws. I heard from here it's a Torx fit? What size? I need to get one. Is this size Torx common in computer gear?...

I missed it. Well, because of the heat, I wouldn't want the Seagate I guess. Listening to the noise samples again, the Caviar idle does sound like this, and in relation to the Seagate samples is a bit louder. Seek sounds are much louder in my case relative to your samples though. That could be an en...

I built audio playback and recording computers, and have tried many of the quiet drives including the Seagates and the Spinpoints. I can hear the WD Caviar in my music computer 9 feet away in almost any room ambient noise situation. The room would have to be very quiet before I could hear the two Se...

I got the new 500GB Caviar (HD 500G|WD 7K 16M SATA2 WD5000KS ) to replace two of the very quiet Barracuda IVs in my system. I put the drive in in exactly the same bay etc., so it was replacing two drives. Should be much quieter, but it's not. It's about twice as loud. The seek is MUCH louder, and th...