Silent external hard drive???!

Posted by: iiyama on 25 August 2008

Im thinking of going down the Mac/Lavry route, yawn!

I would like to store my music on an external hard drive and connect via an ethernet cable to a Macbook.

Obviously i would require a silent (or as good as)external hard drive. What would people recomened? Is the Apple Time Capsule 1TB silent?
Posted on: 27 August 2008 by Guido Fawkes
We use Plasmon at work - and it backs up several TB of data, but I don't think you'd really want it at home. I should have added Big Grin
Posted on: 27 August 2008 by garyi
Drobo. Its the way forward.
Posted on: 27 August 2008 by pcstockton
Buffalo TeraStation....
Posted on: 28 August 2008 by iiyama
Cheers for the advice!

I didn't mean Ethernet! hence all the confusion (working the odd set of nights plays havoc with your mind)doh!

Obviously owning an iMac it would be best to use a firewire 800 HDD!
Posted on: 28 August 2008 by pcstockton
iiyama,

now you tell us...

Get a Seagate Free Agent Pro (ensure it is the "Pro" model).

It has USB, Firewire and E-SATA on the same drive.
And they are dead silent.
And they have NO FANS.
and a 5 year warranty.

What more could you want.
Posted on: 28 August 2008 by gary1 (US)
PC, only problem-- no raid for duplicate back-up. Why not NAS such as Dlink 323 NAS and DB35 hard drives.
Posted on: 28 August 2008 by garyi
I owuld have to agree with my nearly namesake. As you are starting from scratch do it properly.

If you want it really really easy then get a drobo.

www.drobo.com

Simply push harddrives in it. When they fill up pull it out and put another one in.

Mind you that being said they do have a fan.
Posted on: 28 August 2008 by Bananahead
quote:
Originally posted by pcstockton:
iiyama,

now you tell us...

Get a Seagate Free Agent Pro (ensure it is the "Pro" model).

It has USB, Firewire and E-SATA on the same drive.
And they are dead silent.
And they have NO FANS.
and a 5 year warranty.

What more could you want.


Built in Raid
User servicable

Solution

And not a fan anywhere. Razz


Nigel
Posted on: 28 August 2008 by pcstockton
FYI, that is the MAC formatted model. The PC version is $100 cheaper.
Posted on: 28 August 2008 by Bananahead
quote:
Originally posted by pcstockton:
FYI, that is the MAC formatted model. The PC version is $100 cheaper.


The Mirror edition is only USB 2.0 and is a differenet colour..............
Posted on: 29 August 2008 by pcstockton
Bananahead,

Those drives are the nicest WDs ive seen. I was looking at the Mirror at Best Buy the other day. I almost bought one to consolidate my back-up drives. But i dont REALLY need one so I held off.

I would simply use this in a RAID 0 scenario and use the full 2TB for back up of my two 1TB Seagate listening drives.

And yes Mirror is only USB, hence the price. But USB is just fine for me. I have NEVER experienced speed issues. Playing music is all these drives do for me. To one computer. It is not networked and never will be.

Nice drive though, also with 5 year warranty.