* Henrik Ahlgren <pa...@seestieto.com> [24-10/06=Sun 11:20 +0300]: > 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.
This is a 3.5 inch drive from a desktop tower that was built in 2007.
