Good idea or bad/waste of money?

[HiFiGuy528]

With Snow Leopard months away. I am thinking about upgrading to SSD on my white MacBook (Muisc/Movies) server at home. The current Samsung 500gb internal HD is noisy. I need dead slience because I like to hear music not background noise. SSD comes to mind to run just the OS & apps, use the Sammy 500gb in an enclosure inside a cabinet. All iTunes library content and movies are housed on external drives. There are two good reasons why I like this idea.

1. OS X & apps is not that big so I can buy a 64gb SSD on the cheap/per or maybe even 32gb.

2. SSD are fast & quiet so low heat inside MacBook.

Which SSD do you like and how much did you paid?

 

[GoCubsGo]

Your internal hdd makes that much noise?

Waste of money for someone who claims to want to listen to music. You would have proper speakers that would output more dbs than your stupid HDD.

 

[MacDawg]

Hard to believe an internal HDD is loud enough to interfere with music
What do you listen to that is that soft?

Put in some country and crank it up... and save the money!

Woof, Woof - Dawg

 

[McGiord]

MacBook's speakers are crappy.
Buy good noise isolating earphones.

 

[miles01110]

Or just buy a pair of decent headphones. Decent headphones will beat decent speakers in terms of sound quality and noise reduction almost every time.

 

[GimmeSlack12]

As an Acoustician by profession I can make a few recommendations to mitigate the HDD noise you are hearing.

1) Put the HDD in a cabinet.
2) Close the cabinet.


What I am getting at is that you need to increase the transmission loss (noise blocking) between you and the HDD.

MacBook's speakers are crappy.
Buy good noise isolating earphones.

No one seriously listens to music through a computers speakers do they?

 

[HiFiGuy528]

The Sammy 500gb is more noisy than my Seagate 500gb in my 13" MBP. I need the laptop outside of a cabinet to use the Apple remote. I don't listen to music on the internal speakers, who does. I have a full McIntosh & Focal JM Lab Utopia system. Put your MacBook in a well insolated/damped room and tell me if you can hear the hard drive. The idea of SSD to run just to OS will allow me to place the Sammy 500gb in a cabinet out of sight.