Loud ass PC

Ok, my PC is louder than a jet engine.

I open up my PC, and am surprised to find that the culprit isn't the Radeon fan, nor the CPU fan...it's the fans inside my hard drives. How the hell are two HDs louder than everything else combined.

Is this normal, or are my WD HDs just garbage. What's the quietest HDs that I could buy.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Something like this may help.

http://www.epcbuyer.com/products.asp?recnumber=7681

I find that even when hard drives aren't particular loud, the sound they make is really irritating any. Just that particular pitch that gets right on my nerves.

I heard there are also some settings you can tweak to make drives more quiet, but I don't know enough about that.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

What size and/or model?

WD's new 500GB drive is damn near silent. I run two of them in RAID, and they are awesome. $110 USD isn't too bad of a price, if you ask me. Bonus: they run very cool. Despite what the asswad on the Newegg pages says:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136073

Also, there are no fans inside a hard drive. If this noise is a new development, it could be on it's way to the junkyard.

edit: That hard drive silencer box thing looks fairly volatile to hard drives. Keeping 55C idle for a hard drive is ridiculous and will severely reduce the life of the hard drive.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Let's see.

I got two WD Caviars, of the 120GB and 80GB variety.

I have been trying to get my HDs upgraded for a while, but I'm too dumb to figure out what is compatible with my system, in concerns to SATA and all that. I also have no clue how I would move all the data from my existing drives to newer ones, other than getting an external solution beforehand.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Pretty easy.

1. Figure what you're using. Looking at the size of your drives, I'm saying IDE/PATA.
2. Buy two new IDE/PATA hard drives. They're dying tech and going to replaced by SATA in the next year.
3. Buy an enclosure for your drives to make an internal into an external. $15 on newegg/pricegrabber.
4. Move data to external hard drive
5. Install one drive and reinstall Windows XP
6. Install second drive with all your stuff on it.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Is there any clicking as well though? That would confirm that the HD's are in fact on their way out.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by xiaowei

2. Buy two new IDE/PATA hard drives. They're dying tech and going to replaced by SATA in the next year.

Then why not get SATA?

How ya doing, buddy?