IBM/Hitachi Hard Disk

I'm going to by a second hard disk for my system and was thinking about
buying a
123.5Gb IBM/Hitachi Deskstar 180GXP ATA-100 (7200rpm,8MB Cache, 8.5ms).

As well as price my main concern is noise. I want to get a quiet hard disk.
Does anyone know how loud this hard disk is in comparison to similar specced
disks?

Thanks in advance
Macca

I'm going to by a second hard disk for my system and was thinking about
buying a
123.5Gb IBM/Hitachi Deskstar 180GXP ATA-100 (7200rpm,8MB Cache, 8.5ms).

As well as price my main concern is noise. I want to get a quiet hard
disk.
Does anyone know how loud this hard disk is in comparison to similar
specced
disks?

Well I have the 2mb cache version and its fairly quiet - just the spin up
noise and the heads moving, although this isn't loud. It's quieter than my
old Maxtor, which you could hear whining away.

Macca,

I live in the UK and bought this disk recently from Dabs.com

I can say that the drive's noise is inaudible beneath that of the power
supply fan.

My last drive was an IBM 20GB job, and the new 120GB drive is silent by
comparison.

Also well worth paying the extra 5 quid for the 8MB buffer.

Regards

Alan


"Macca" wrote in message
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I'm going to by a second hard disk for my system and was thinking about
buying a
123.5Gb IBM/Hitachi Deskstar 180GXP ATA-100 (7200rpm,8MB Cache, 8.5ms).

As well as price my main concern is noise. I want to get a quiet hard
disk.
Does anyone know how loud this hard disk is in comparison to similar
specced
disks?

Thanks in advance
Macca