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Quietest Mechanical Drives

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3dprophet

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I have a WD Black drive from 2009 that I use for file storage, and it's the loudest component in my system.

The drive works great, but I can hear a little bit of high pitch whine from it after moving to a case that has a lot of mesh.

Would a more recent mechanical drive be much more quieter? What are the quietest mechanical drives right now?
 
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The quietest one I've got is probably 35 years old.
It uses zero watts as well.
 
Just bought a Seagate 10T 7200RPM Pro. Silent. I have some older WD white labels that are a little noisy. Generally, the newer - the more quiet I find. Regardless of speed.
 
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