nMP, quiet storage options?

[Ryan0751]

My nMP is due any day this week. One thing I dislike about my setup right now is the noise from my external disk.

I've got a G-Tech Thunderbolt RAID (two 2TB disks, striped RAID for speed, all backed up to Time Machine for reliability).

It works nice, 270MB/s reads/write.

But, you can hear the disks spinning. All the time.

Anyone have any suggestions? I know an SSD array would be quiet, but that's big money. I'm trying to think of a way to hide the disk somewhere where the noise wouldn't be so audible, but my room is completely open.

 

[LiamHD]

My nMP is due any day this week. One thing I dislike about my setup right now is the noise from my external disk.

I've got a G-Tech Thunderbolt RAID (two 2TB disks, striped RAID for speed, all backed up to Time Machine for reliability).

It works nice, 270MB/s reads/write.

But, you can hear the disks spinning. All the time.

Anyone have any suggestions? I know an SSD array would be quiet, but that's big money. I'm trying to think of a way to hide the disk somewhere where the noise wouldn't be so audible, but my room is completely open.

Build a Subwoofer type enclosure for it using sound dampening material.

 

[Killerbob]

Buy LaCie Thunderbolt SSDs and daisy-chain them... Or, get the Sonnet Echo Express III-D box, put in 3xAccelsior 1TB cards or 3xSonnet Tempo Pro cards, with 2x1TB SSDs on each. 5 times faster than your current HDDs, and dead quiet.

 

[Average Pro]

G-Tech Studio Raid/Speed

I have both the G Raid and G studio - super quiet. I especially like that when my MP goes to sleep or awakens the they mimic the behavior.

 

[nox-uk]

Stear clear of the Drobo mini. I have one with some 750gb disks in it. It's great at storage, it's just not silent. Heard the 5 bay drobos are silent but no firsthand experience. My old Synology ds213air was as noisy as the disks, the fan rarely kicked in.

Nox

 

[hkoster1]

I put my Thunderbolt drives (OWC ThunderBay 4 enclosure plus a bunch of daisy-chained Time Machine and backup drives) in the next room, connected with a 10m Corning Thunderbolt fibreglass cable. Dead quiet.

 

[Gav Mack]

Drobo 5D can get noisy stocked with 5 WD blacks for performance, but with slower WD Reds much quieter but you lose a bit on i/o.

 

[appleaddiction]

I recently bought a BluDrive Plus which features 2TB of storage. It sits beneath my nMP and is pretty quite. Not nearly as fast as your current setup though. They have it rated at about 110MB/s read and write.

 

[ShawnF]

My nMP is due any day this week. One thing I dislike about my setup right now is the noise from my external disk.

I've got a G-Tech Thunderbolt RAID (two 2TB disks, striped RAID for speed, all backed up to Time Machine for reliability).

It works nice, 270MB/s reads/write.

But, you can hear the disks spinning. All the time.

Anyone have any suggestions? I know an SSD array would be quiet, but that's big money. I'm trying to think of a way to hide the disk somewhere where the noise wouldn't be so audible, but my room is completely open.

I just got the Seagate Backup Plus Fast 4TB drive. Portable (2 x 2.5inch running in RAID 0), USB 3.0 (USB powered!) and pretty silent. You can see the benchmarks below:

Seagate Backup Plus Fast