On Sat, 2024-10-05 at 08:40 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > However, head movement isn't always audible. 3½" and 5¼" drives aren't > usually audible, although I've had a few very noisy 5¼ drives. And of > course SSDs are utterly silent.
I wonder how ancient drives you are using? Have there even been any mainstream 5¼ inch form factor HDDs manufactured since the Quantum Bigfoot in the 1990s? I remember those drives being quite loud indeed.
