Looking for a silent external HDD

c-Row

macrumors 65816

Original poster

• Oct 24, 2008

• #1

Can anyone recommend a very silent external HDD? The more storage space, the better. It'll be plugged into my Mac Mini, so either USB or Firewire are fine.

Thanks. 🙂

 

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dborja

macrumors 65816

• Oct 24, 2008

• #2

I was pleasantly surprised with the 500GB Maxtor OneTouch 4. It's quiet and it spins down properly into sleep mode.

 

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skybolt

macrumors 6502a

• Oct 24, 2008

• #3

We have 3 Seagate FreeAgents and they are totally silent! The only way you know they are even on is the orange strip that glows. Also sleep properly when the computer sleeps.

 

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blodwyn

macrumors 65816

• Oct 24, 2008

• #4

skybolt said:

We have 3 Seagate FreeAgents and they are totally silent! The only way you know they are even on is the orange strip that glows. Also sleep properly when the computer sleeps.

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I concur with this. The Seagate drives run very quietly, and have given me zero problems. The WD MyBooks are also pretty quiet, but not silent, and I had a couple of failures with them.