Are Raptors loud?

[grafixmonkey]

Do they squeal like the other WD drives do? You know, that high-pitched whine like you sometimes get from an old TV, the one that makes you just want to kill something... I don't care about the seek noises. I think those are cool, especially when they happen in a RAID rig and there are six going at once.

I'd be getting four to six of the 36GB Raptors in a RAID-0, and I want to make sure I can sit next to this and keep my sanity, because if they all start sounding like the 200GB WD PATA drive I just installed, I'd be taking a sledgehammer to the case.

"ssskreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"

 

[silverpig]

6 of ANY drive is gonna be loud. There's no whine that I can tell with my 74 GB raptor, but the 36 GB versions do have it. It's not as quiet as my 120 GB SATA WD drive, but that's to be expected.

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[grafixmonkey]

So I guess I have some people saying they are quiet, and some people saying they are loud. Those drives are by far the best option for my raid system, so I guess I'm going to stick to them, noise or no noise.

I had four pretty standard ATA drives in my system, and they were pretty quiet. They were Maxtors. So it's possible to have a quiet raid-0. Maybe not during drive seeking, but I found the seek noise had changed so much that it was kind of cool to hear. The drives had slightly different pitches in their seek noises, and they made a little chorus in the drive bracket that wasn't nearly as annoying as a single drive seeking.

 

[arkus]

I have 4 36gb raptors in my system and I don't consider them loud during normal use.

I have two in RAID 0 - during seeks they can be a little noisy in a 'chunky' kind of way, but I haven't encountered any 'skreeee!' type noise!!!

The other two are each fitted within a Coolermaster CoolDrive 3 enclosure. I don't here any noise from them at all, not even during seeks, but then the CoolDrives do have a fan fitted of course.

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[Boscorocks]

I have a WD Raptor and a WD IDE (120GB) drive hooked up. I have not pinpointed the extremely high pitched noise in my system yet, I need to go through and unhook everything one by one to find where its coming from. I think it did start after the IDE drive was put in. I've read here and there that the high pitched noise in the Raptors occur when they are running too hot. I will say if you are going to have four or six hooked up that you might check your cooling. I have the Raptor in a Vantec cooler and if it is not on, I have seen the temperature go above 40 Deg.C.

 

[grafixmonkey]

Interesting about the heat. I'll be trying very hard to keep these cool, because each will be operating pretty heavily even though they're in a raid-0. The drive enclosures are the last things I need to find. Here are my current choices:

<A HREF="http://www.dealsonic.com/skyhawip5ura.html" target="_new">This</A> is what my case looks like.

I will have one of <A HREF="http://www.aicipc.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=wwwroot.acc&subcat=32&MID=164" target="_new">These</A>, except the PATA version, on the left hand side.

I'm choosing between 3-in-2 racks for the right hand side. It will be either,
<A HREF="http://www.aicipc.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=wwwroot.acc&subcat=32&MID=161" target="_new">Two of this one</A>
or
<A HREF="http://www.cremax.com/news-b2.htm" target="_new">Two of this one</A>. When that one comes in black plastic, it looks like <A HREF="http://www.cremax.com/mb016-scsi.htm" target="_new">This One</A> does when you click on BLACK on that page, except it is SATA.

I like the BR-SS23, except it has that bare metal box showing, and LEDs hacked cheaply to the inside of some holes in it, and it kind of kills the smooth black plastic look by showing a big chunk of bare steel. I think the Cremax one also has some aluminum to it, to be lighter. I care a lot about having LED's showing, and would prefer that I didn't have to connect the RAID card's LED headers to the enclosure to make them work. I have some special custom-modding plans for those headers, and I don't want to lose them. (I think the Cremax might require connecting that header to it. I'm not sure if the header on the back is an input or an output.)