Need a Quiet Hard Drive for the Mac Pro

[Tangerine]

I just got a 500GB Seagate Barrucuda Hard Drive from New Egg. Though it was a good deal, it was too noisy for me. I want to return it and get a more quiet Hard Drive. Can anyone give me some suggestion? I only own Seagate Hard Drive so far. Are Western Digital any quieter?

Thanks in advance!

[Lone Deranger]

The SilentPCReview (http://www.silentpcreview.com/) website is rather useful for such inquiries.
I took their advise (http://www.silentpcreview.com/article617-page1.html) and ordered a couple of Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000KS drives.... They are nice and quiet.... particularly when compared to the 250GB Seagate my Mac Pro came with...

[Tangerine]

I bought a similar Hard Drive like this at Best Buy, but it required a power molex adapter to work. I thought this will not work on the Mac Pro? Since I try it, and without the power adapter the Hard Drive is not readable.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/files/images/wd-caviarse/connectors.jpg

The one you purchase, where did you buy it? Any chance New Egg have it as well?

[Lone Deranger]

I got mine from www.misco.co.uk here in the UK. Here's (http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=240513&Tab=1&NoMapp=0) a direct link.
I think you can power the drive either through the molex/IDE *or* through the SATA connector. It should work straight out of the box. All I had to do was mount it on the brackets and slot it in place. Did you try the drive in the Mac Pro?


I bought a similar Hard Drive like this at Best Buy, but it required a power molex adapter to work. I thought this will not work on the Mac Pro? Since I try it, and without the power adapter the Hard Drive is not readable.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/files/images/wd-caviarse/connectors.jpg

The one you purchase, where did you buy it? Any chance New Egg have it as well?

[Umbongo]

The Western Digital drives are quiet, as Lone Deranger says, but the newer samsung spinpoints are the best for noise concerns.

[CanadaRAM]

I bought a similar Hard Drive like this at Best Buy, but it required a power molex adapter to work. I thought this will not work on the Mac Pro? Since I try it, and without the power adapter the Hard Drive is not readable.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/files/images/wd-caviarse/connectors.jpg

The one you purchase, where did you buy it? Any chance New Egg have it as well?
You must have gotten a first-generation SATA drive 2 years ago, all current SATA drives have SATA power connectors. A few in the interim had both Molex and SATA. You can get SATA - Molex adaptors, but really, there should be no SATA drives sold today with only Molex.

[Tangerine]

It look like this, it's Sata Interface but it have a power molex connector as well. I couldn't get the Mac Pro to read the Hard Drive when I stick it in.

http://www.linuxtechtoys.com/ltt/images/178/wdfdesktop_se16_ks.jpg