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€...