Help finding a Quiet HDD for Escient player

dcmeigs
dcmeigs Posts: 708
edited February 2010 in Electronics
I have one of the old Escient H40 Firefox music players. It's called a music server but it's basically a component ipod.

It has a Western Digital 40 gig IDE 3.5 HDD and it sound like a jet engine at taxi. I'm going to upgrade to a larger HDD but I want the most quiet one I can find but it's difficult as I can't find sound levels published. The floor walkers at the stores are way beyond clueless.

Any suggestions? I'm pretty sure I need to stay with an IDE but I'm not absolutely sure that an adaptor wouldn't work. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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  • doctorcilantro
    doctorcilantro Posts: 2,028
    edited February 2010
    You could probably still find a Samsung Spinpoint 40-120GB IDE. They are/were quiet drives.

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