der Mouse wrote:
I once had the (mis)fortune to use a machine with a
Seagate 2G
Barracuda in it. I will cheerfully swap you my entire stock of those
drives for otherwise equivalent _quiet_ drives of half the capacity.
More noise is not _always_ preferable.
Something as recent a 2G Barracuda would certainly qualify as
non-preferable noise. A bunch of RA-80s or RK-5s, though, would be a
sound of beauty.