Me and a friend want to build a plexserver and need help for finding the right hdd. It needs to be a quiet one because it’s standing in my bedroom. Do you guys have any recommendations for 14tb+ HDD’s that are as quiet as possible?

  • Xenkath@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Slower RPM HDDs will generally be quieter than faster ones, and consumer drives will generally be quieter than enterprise drives at the cost of long term reliability and possibly write speed, but in general HDDs aren’t quiet, and no one specifically makes quiet HDDs.

    Moving parts make noise. You’re more or less looking for something that doesn’t exist. Instead of looking for a quiet drive, look for ways to sound-isolate your drive.