Spinpoint still the quietest general drive?

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I'm going to be ordering some new bits and I just wondered whether this still holds true. I've been happy with the 160Gb Spinpoints I ordered some time back.
 
Pretty much they still are the quietest out there. One of them has a rating of 38 dbm @ 3 mm, which is the only drive to do better than 40 dbm.
 
They're pretty quiet, but if you want, look into drive suspension to remove all traces of vibration.
 
I was just after 'sensible' quieting this time around. The PC will work as a normal machine, I've left both the CPU fans stock and I have not yet decided to replace the MB fan with a Zalman cooler so it's not like it'll be an ultra-silent machine. I have gone the 2.5" route on another PC and apart from available capacity issues it was a pain in the *** with certain cases, especially when they already had provisions for some degree of drive-noise damping (the Tsunami is being used once again). Anyway, looks like it's going to be Spinpoints again. Thanks for the feedback.
 
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