[LAU] Which SATA drive? Size? [Was: Re: partition table]

[Mark Knecht]

On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Arnold Krille <arnold at arnoldarts.de> wrote:
> On Sunday 26 December 2010 11:09:00 Brent Busby wrote:
>> On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Ivan K wrote:
>> > I was surprised to hear that so many people write their audio files to
>> > a second drive.  I always thought that most audio people preferred as
>> > few drives as possible in a system to keep noise down.
>>
>> SATA drives make almost no noise.  You'll get more noise from your
>> processor and power supply fan than you ever will from even five or six
>> SATA disks.
>
> While that is true in general, the disk directly attached to the pc's main
> frame will produce a lot of low frequency noise from resonances. I found some
> drive-bays at reichelt that work without trays and have all the inner parts
> with the hdd attached via shock-absorbers. Definitely worth its 21€...
> http://www.reichelt.de/?ACTION=3;GROUP=E66;GROUPID=733;ARTICLE=91887;SID=2892ic8awQARwAAEpCWQke96457b63f521ffeea99e7480a588420
>
> Have fun,
>
> Arnold

eSata with a long cable & the audio drive placed in a quieter area.

System drive could be a smallish SDD.

Little noise.

- Mark