When a computer run noisily, is it coming from the hard disk or from anything else?

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redcarpet

In my case, my hard drive is quiet. I can hear it working sometimes, but it's not what I would call noisy. My computer noise comes from the 80mm fans over my cpu and front intake. The power supply fan is actually pretty quiet. Occasionaly, my dvd-rom will make a lot of noise too. I really hate when I can hear the cdrom miss, and hear a clanking/grinding sound.

My computer is relativly quiet. I think a lot of people have such noisy fans they cannot hear the hard drive.

Is there any way to know what brand of hard disk is quiet?

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redcarpet

I'm sure we can dig up a review or two for you but it is all relative. What do you consider noisy? Personally, I have a Maxtor ATA-100 hard drive that is very quiet for me - it's my fans that make a lot of noise. Sometimes I wish my hard drive made a little more noise especially when I think my computer has locked up

My computers are in my bedroom.

I am pretty sure it was the disk since it hummed like an old hard disk although it's about one year.

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redcarpet

After I retested, I found out the noise came from the computer but not the disks.

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