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SCSI discs are much louder- not sure why- and some ATA-100/133 drives are avail with some sort of liquid bearing and insulation which makes them very quiet- Seagate SoftSonic eqipped drives come to mind- www.tomshardware.com just did a review- best r/w across the entire platter also- I know Maxtor are very quiet also- and they have good support/return policy. Fan noise is a big one- but until I swapped a few drives out with newer ones I had no idea how much the high pitched hard drive noise contributed to the overall noise of the system- I would say it is close to 50/50 actually- Also- a decent 7,200 rpm ata-100 drive is as good as most scsi drives, and in some cases better- there is not much reason to go scsi unless you need 10000 or 15000 rpm with the best seek times. RAID arrays using IDE drives are great- and Tom's even tested a RAID array comprised of small, quiet notebook hard drives! c ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Sottilaro" <sine@zerocrossing.net> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 1:41 PM Subject: Re: O.T. Computers > SoundFNR@aol.com wrote: > > > > > SCSI disks are supposed to be the best, but now the > > IDE disks are easily good enough, and are cheaper > > and more importantly quieter. > > Also, the faster the disk spins, the louder it is, > > and the "slower" Hard Drives these days are quite > > fast enough. > > (unless you want to record 24 tracks at once). > > ...but do get the largest capacity disk you can. > > Is this really true? Are SCSI disks louder? I've never really a/b'd > two, but the difference has never been obvious to me. Fan noise is your > biggest problem, IMO, and you can spend a bit more to get quiet fans. > Frankly, I can't remember the last time I used a mic, and I really don't > notice the sound of my G4 while I'm mixing, but I don't have a true > "studio" environment. > > Mark > >