How loud is the actual 74gb raptor 16mb?

Silencing hard drives, optical drives and other storage devices

Moderators: NeilBlanchard, Ralf Hutter, sthayashi, Lawrence Lee

Post Reply
DontMakeMeEatU
Posts: 15
Joined: Sun Jul 30, 2006 8:42 pm

How loud is the actual 74gb raptor 16mb?

Post by DontMakeMeEatU » Fri Sep 01, 2006 9:19 pm

Not including vibration, how loud it the raptor itself?

I was thinking about doing a RAID 5 with them but I won't do it if it's too loud.

McBanjo
Posts: 671
Joined: Thu Dec 08, 2005 1:40 pm
Location: Sweden
Contact:

Post by McBanjo » Fri Sep 01, 2006 11:34 pm


xilencer
Posts: 52
Joined: Wed Feb 02, 2005 1:20 pm

Post by xilencer » Sat Sep 02, 2006 4:47 am

That review is of the older double platter 8MB cache 74GB model.

The newer drives idle slightly quieter, here's a quote from the Raptor 150GB review:
Devon Cooke wrote:At idle, the new Raptor was quieter than every other 3.5" drive in the lab except for our old standby, the Barracuda IV. That includes the older Raptor (only slightly quieter), Samsung's 80 GB Spinpoint models, and Western Digital's own 500 GB Caviar SE16. Deciding between the Raptor and the Barracuda IV was very difficult and it took a several A/B comparisons and a number of second opinions before we finally settled on the Barracuda as the quieter drive. Much of this difference had to do with the subjective quality of the noise; the Barracuda had a more broadband sound that was more muted than the Raptor. That said, the difference was very difficult to pick out from a distance of one meter, even when we knew what to listen for.
The "74GB Raptor 16MB" in question is a single platter model (like that Barracuda IV) which makes it even quieter than the one reviewed.
Raptors are not the quietest seekers however.

Post Reply