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#2

Get an SSD.

#3

Get rubber-padding for the screws and the sound levels will drop a ton. Most of the sound you hear is from vibrations that resonate throughout the entire case.

#4

i have a green drive but it goes idle like a mother fucker

makes no audible sound

#5

Lately I’ve gotten into the habit of running my computers without hard drives. Instead I boot from an NFS share on a computer running in the closet upstairs. It has many advantages:

  1. No sound at all, can’t get quieter than that.
  2. All your files are in a central place for backups, and can be safe on a RAID array.
  3. More efficient use of space, instead of having 250gb free on each of 3 computers, you have 750gb to use among them as they need it.

Also, it’s not any slower than a local hard drive with a 1gbit network. Pretty good setup if you ask me, and easy to do. :slight_smile:

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[quote=“Moparisthebest, post:5, topic:433652”]Lately I’ve gotten into the habit of running my computers without hard drives. Instead I boot from an NFS share on a computer running in the closet upstairs. It has many advantages:

  1. No sound at all, can’t get quieter than that.
  2. All your files are in a central place for backups, and can be safe on a RAID array.
  3. More efficient use of space, instead of having 250gb free on each of 3 computers, you have 750gb to use among them as they need it.

Also, it’s not any slower than a local hard drive with a 1gbit network. Pretty good setup if you ask me, and easy to do. :)[/quote]SSD’s are completely silent too.

Oh, and in extreme situations (such as mine) 1gbps network wouldnt be enough. I get almost 1100mb/s read on my ssd raid setup.

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[quote=“Speljohan, post:6, topic:433652”][quote author=Moparisthebest link=topic=536371.msg3923662#msg3923662 date=1329969875]
Lately I’ve gotten into the habit of running my computers without hard drives. Instead I boot from an NFS share on a computer running in the closet upstairs. It has many advantages:

  1. No sound at all, can’t get quieter than that.
  2. All your files are in a central place for backups, and can be safe on a RAID array.
  3. More efficient use of space, instead of having 250gb free on each of 3 computers, you have 750gb to use among them as they need it.

Also, it’s not any slower than a local hard drive with a 1gbit network. Pretty good setup if you ask me, and easy to do. :slight_smile:
[/quote]SSD’s are completely silent too.

Oh, and in extreme situations (such as mine) 1gbps network wouldnt be enough. I get almost 1100mb/s read on my ssd raid setup.[/quote]

But you only need that on your gaming computer, which I assume runs windows which couldn’t do that anyway and even then that seems overkill. I can max out all of my SATA drives over the 1gbps network.

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[quote=“Moparisthebest, post:7, topic:433652”][quote author=Speljohan link=topic=536371.msg3923720#msg3923720 date=1329974420]

But you only need that on your gaming computer, which I assume runs windows which couldn’t do that anyway and even then that seems overkill. I can max out all of my SATA drives over the 1gbps network.[/quote]Why do you assume this guy runs Linux though? Most people don’t.

Yes, my setup is overkill, hence “extreme situations”. Ps, Win7 has NFS support, so you can do it.

#9

I’ve tried out win7’s NFS support and it didn’t work very well. But can you install it on an NFS share? I don’t think you can.