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Best Hard Drive and Enclosure for Music Server

I'm going through the muck dealing with a faulty OWC miniStack. It's a great idea since it fits perfectly under a Mac Mini. But I had lots of problems with its connection to the computer dropping. I returned it for repair, they said the controller board failed its tests, replaced it and sent it back. Now the thing is giving me trouble again. The drive just disconnects.

Also just bought a Western Digital 1.5TB Green Caviar drive that's supposed to be really quiet. So far it's so-so. On idle it sometimes has a high pitch that goes away once it's accessing the disc.

Looking for a relatively rock solid solution that's not too noisy. Any suggestions or experiences to share?

Cutterfilm (Threads | Answers | This Thread)

11-26-09

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11-26-09 Drobo with droboshare. not the cheapest, but to me the abso ... Macdadtexas

11-26-09 Unfortunately the drobo was too noise for my taste (even wit ... Restock

11-26-09 I'm getting good, quiet service from my usb external seagate ... Rlwainwright

11-26-09 In three years i've had 3 outboard hard drives. seagate, la ... Vegasears

11-27-09 I don't understand why the noise from a drobo would bother a ... Macdadtexas

11-27-09 i suppose if you have the $$$ some solid state hds could be ... Blindjim

11-27-09 I use a pair of western digital mybook studio edition 1tb wi ... Sidssp

11-27-09 Macdadtexas. another part of the house would be in the bed ... Restock

11-27-09 Restock, that makes a difference for sure. apt looks very c ... Macdadtexas

11-27-09 I am using the seaport free agent go pro 500gb external hard ... Hgeifman

11-28-09 I am using two 1tb western digital green enterprise drives i ... Dmailer

11-28-09 I wish i could put my directv receiver and computer stuff in ... Cutterfilm

11-29-09 I use 2 lacie d2 quadras, 500gb each, and i've had good resu ... Bryoncunningham

11-30-09 Also check out the computeraudiophile dot com for more on th ... Blindjim

11-30-09 I've read a lot over at computeraudiophile but there's nothi ... Cutterfilm

11-30-09 I have been happy with a lacie 2big nas drive so far - i am ... Shadorne

12-01-09 Lots of great ideas here already... for more i'd look to com ... Blindjim

01-14-10 So i installed a wd green caviar 1.5tb drive in an ezquest e ... Cutterfilm

01-15-10 Perhaps a new case. i use the antec sonata iii with excellen ... Srwooten

04-24-10 I think you would have good luck with the aluminum enclosure ... Key_metric

04-26-10 My wd green drives are very quiet. they are enterprise leve ... Dmailer

04-26-10 I'm running 2 seagate usb drives, one is 1.5 tb (main) and t ... Mapman

04-26-10 Dmailer: you are probably right about 5400 rpm drives being ... Key_metric