[TriLUG] OT: Quiet SCSI drive

[Lee Fickenscher]

Are you sure it is the drives making all the noise?
If so, stepping down to 10k RPM drives may help, though if they are  
already 10k drives you are pretty much stuck.

On Aug 4, 2006, at 2:20 PM, Owen Berry wrote:

> I have a Sun Ultra Enterprise 2 sitting under my desk, as a free gift
> from my company due to lack of use. Nothing great, but it has 2  
> network
> cards, dual processor, and 1G memory. Only problem is that it has 2  
> SCSI
> drives that are so noisy that people from across the passage came  
> to see
> what was going on the first time I started it up.
>
> Is it possible to get a relatively quiet SCSI drive that wouldn't be a
> noise polluter sitting under my desk? And if so, what should I be
> looking for? I don't need anything large ... just enough to get a  
> basic
> Linux or BSD server running.