Quiet Hard Drives
When it comes to noise, not all hard drives are created equal. We have carefully chosen a selection of the world's quietest and most reliable hard drives.
Very Quiet Our Western Digital Blue Series silent hard drives are very quiet, while performing at Sata III (6Gb/s) speeds. These are our standard quiet hard drives.
Extremely Quiet Our Western Digital Green Series quiet hard drive drives are extremely quiet, but are a little slower than Western Digital Blue series silent hard drives. Green Series drives are generally used for large data storage drives, or for extreme silence with a reasonable pricetag.
Absolute silence For absolutely silent drive operation, with extremely fast speeds, a solid state drive (SSD) is the best option. Unlike a standard hard drive, SSDs have no moving parts. They don't make any noise. Solid State Drives are much faster than a standard hard drive, and are much more reliable. In general for SSDs we recommend Intel, since they have been making rock solid SSDs for years, and their 510 series of SATA III SSDs are fantastic.
As always, if you'd like a custom solution or if you have any questions please feel free to contact our Sales Team
Quick Compare — Hard Drive Options
- Capacity: 250GB
- 7200 RPM
- 16MB Cache
- SATA III (6.0Gb/s)
- Blue Series
- Capacity: 1TB
- 7200 RPM
- 32MB Cache
- SATA III (6.0Gb/s)
- Blue Series
- Capacity: 1TB
- 5400-7200 RPM IntelliPower
- 64MB Cache
- SATA II (3.0Gb/s)
- Green Series
- Capacity: 2TB
- 5400-7200 RPM IntelliPower
- 64MB Cache
- SATA II (3.0Gb/s)
- Green Series
- Capacity: 2TB
- 5400-7200 RPM IntelliPower
- 64MB Cache
- SATA III (6.0Gb/s)
- Green Series
- Capacity: 3TB
- 5400-7200 RPM IntelliPower
- 64MB Cache
- SATA III (6.0Gb/s)
- Green Series
- Capacity: 150GB
- 10,000 RPM
- 32MB Cache
- SATA II (3.0Gb/s)
- Enterprise Series WD VelociRaptor
- Capacity: 300GB
- 10,000 RPM
- 32MB Cache
- SATA II (3.0Gb/s)
- Enterprise Series WD VelociRaptor
- Capacity: 600GB
- 10,000 RPM
- 32MB Cache
- SATA III (6.0Gb/s)
- Enterprise Series WD VelociRaptor
- Capacity: 320GB
- 5400 RPM
- 8MB Cache
- SATA II (3.0Gb/s)
- Scorpio Blue Series
- Capacity: 1TB
- 5200 RPM
- 8MB Cache
- SATA II (3.0Gb/s)
- Scorpio Blue Series
- Capacity: 80GB
- MLC 1,200,000 hours MTBF
- Sustained Sequential Read: Up to 270 MB/s
- Sustained Sequential Write: Up to 90 MB/s
- SATA II (3.0Gb/s)
- Intel 320 Series
- Capacity: 160GB
- MLC 1,200,000 hours MTBF
- Sustained Sequential Read: Up to 270 MB/s
- Sustained Sequential Write: Up to 165 MB/s
- SATA II (3.0Gb/s)
- Intel 320 Series
- Capacity: 300GB
- MLC 1,200,000 hours MTBF
- Sustained Sequential Read: Up to 270 MB/s
- Sustained Sequential Write: Up to 205 MB/s
- SATA II (3.0Gb/s)
- Intel 320 Series
- Capacity: 600GB
- MLC 1,200,000 hours MTBF
- Sustained Sequential Read: Up to 270 MB/s
- Sustained Sequential Write: Up to 220 MB/s
- SATA II (3.0Gb/s)
- Intel 320 Series
- Capacity: 120GB
- MLC 1,200,000 hours MTBF
- Sustained Sequential Read: Up to 450 MB/s
- Sustained Sequential Write: Up to 210 MB/s
- SATA III (6.0Gb/s)
- Intel 510 Series
- Capacity: 250GB
- MLC 1,200,000 hours MTBF
- Sustained Sequential Read: Up to 500 MB/s
- Sustained Sequential Write: Up to 315 MB/s
- SATA III (6.0Gb/s)
- Intel 510 Series
- Capacity: 200GB
- eMLC Enterprise SSD 2,000,000 hours MTBF
- Sustained Sequential Read: Up to 270 MB/s
- Sustained Sequential Write: Up to 210 MB/s
- SATA II (3.0Gb/s)
- Intel 710 Series
- Capacity: 300GB
- eMLC Enterprise SSD 2,000,000 hours MTBF
- Sustained Sequential Read: Up to 270 MB/s
- Sustained Sequential Write: Up to 210 MB/s
- SATA II (3.0Gb/s)
- Intel 710 Series
- Capacity: 240GB
- MLC 2,000,000 hours MTBF
- Sustained Sequential Read: Up to 560 MB/s
- Sustained Sequential Write: Up to 520 MB/s
- SATA III (6.0Gb/s)
- Chronos Deluxe