Hard Drives are Loud
Only a week with my iMac, and I’m spoiled by the silence. I have two very quiet 400GB Seagate external drives, a 250GB LaCie d2, and the new external enclosure for my old 500GB internal Seagate SATA. I can’t stand a single one of them anymore.
With my old G5, I guess the low decibel whirring was relatively silent. The G5’s fans would rev up in anticipation of processing something. It became second nature to me, almost as if driving an exotic sports car; I could anticipate the engine noise associated with various actions. But now, silence. With my G5, externals that had fans were too loud for me. Now even the fanless have a hum that infuriates me. I’m at a loss for words.
I need, absolutely need, an external 500GB so I can continue my SuperDuper! backup cloning schedule of my internal drive. But the new enclosure, the only one with 500GB capacity is the noisiest of them all. So it won’t do. And what am I going to do with the rest, the 1.25TB of cacophonic magnetic media? I even tried sticking the externals in the “CPU cabinet” of my desk, which has a closing front door. No good. Turns the desk into a tuning fork. Solid state cannot arrive soon enough.