Some drives are worse than others, in my experience, Seagate drives are extremely loud.
If you get helium drives (like wd red plus > 8TB i think),or 2nd hand hgst/ WD enterprise drives) they are significantly quieter.
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Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 1 week ago
A lesson I learnt along the way:
HDD's on your desk are loud AF when you're constantly writing to a database
Solution: Everything except backups and Media run on SSD's
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Ptsf@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Depends on the drive too, I have some insanely loud Ironwolf drives and you would never guess they’re from the same manufacturer as my practically silent Exos X18s.
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 1 week ago
The other HDD I have is a WD Gold, it's definitely the louder of the two, both of them are ~5 years old.
Now that I moved the databases off of them, they are quieter than my work laptop, so they don't bug me.
But oh boy, it really did sound like a train yard at one point.