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People will always complain. Some actually need quiet drives, like in an audio-heavy environment.
Droning, constant noise is fine, because you can tune it out. But HD seek noise pokes out because it is intermittent. As such it becomes really distracting and annoying.
That sort of thing I understand, it's necessary on a technical level.
But HDD noise for the average user? Come on. It's one thing to have a V-Raptor in an external sled with no case on it sitting near your display, that -is- kinda loud (ask me how I know
), but internally-mounted drives of any kind (including Cheetahs) in a Mac Pro just aren't that loud… unless you're one of those people who keeps their tower on the desk for some bizarre reason. But those people are already clearly in need of mental health care.
I'll bite. How do you know? It seems obvious, but it seems like there's an interesting why in that story too.
Haha, it was actually just a little thing I had to make four clones of a project hard drive for work, and realized that there wasn't really a great way to do it other than putting my boot Raptor in an external case, putting the project drive to be cloned in the second optical bay, and then putting the 4 empty drives on the sleds. Knowing it wasn't going to be a permanent setup, I never closed the external enclosure, just ran it open with the drive exposed. I did sort of a
when I powered up the machine, I hadn't heard the drive outside of my machine before that 
Well, this may be true but I can safely say that I've never ever seen a decent studio where ANY equipment was EVER allowed to interfere with a mic. Positioning and location are always considered - even on live shoots! So unless your computer is making noise on par with a Mac Truck then this is a non-issue if you know what you're doing.
And if they don't know what they're doing then they've no right to complain anyway.
So every time I read those comments on-line I always stick my tongue in my cheek and wonder about competence levels.
Oh, you mean my G5?
So every time I read those comments on-line I always stick my tongue in my cheek and wonder about competence levels.
Well, it was just a minor point, but your correct on the competance-part. Low budget from buying that MacMini/cardioid mic? Just record audio in the spare bedroom.
Ah, projects at home!Besides, if somebody is worrying about HDD noise, shouldn't they be MORE worried about the noise their computer's fans make?
Oh, you mean my G5?
No, I really meant the wall-shaking rumble of a Mac Truck.
Well, it was just a minor point, but your correct on the competance-part. Low budget from buying that MacMini/cardioid mic? Just record audio in the spare bedroom.
Besides, if somebody is worrying about HDD noise, shouldn't they be MORE worried about the noise their computer's fans make?
Depends on the the kind of mic and it's sensitivity profile I guess. But even bedroom recording is again a question of competence. Not in the chosen location but rather in the equipment chosen. If you must be in an environment with fans, street-noise and etc then a good dynamic voice mic is the proper tool. I think that's why the Heil PR-40 is so popular. A pro grade dynamic voice mic that specs out like a $2,000 mic sold for like $250.
http://www.heilsound.com/pro/products/pr40/
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No, I really meant the wall-shaking rumble of a Mac Truck.
Ah, the downsides of living right next to the Apple store
Thanks a lot! I've had a devil of a time (personally) trying to find something like that.
I do.
My computer is in my bedroom. I use my mac to watch movies as well, I have a large LCD monitor. However, my mac has 4 internal hard drives, 1 external, and two ATI 3870s. It's quite loud, and bothers me when I try to do a regular task everyone is accustomed to; sleep.
My goal is to eliminate as much noise from it as possible now. And the heat from all the internal components). I'm replacing all 4 drives inside my mac pro with one SSD drive (or two, for RAID0) and one HDD @ 1TB. My external is a 3.5" which will be replaced with a 2.5" (good riddance psu cable!). My ATI 3870s will get passive cooling with the Accelero S1 rev.2 heat sink, unless its too big of a heat sink to hold both in slot 1 and slot 2, ill just toss out the second card. The heat it produces is enough to warm up my room during the winter.
Yes, sound is annoying.