Silent drive enclosures

[focalintent]

I have need for .5-2 terrabytes of storage that is silent. I have a drive right now on my media machine that is a 500GB drive - but it has the noisiest fan in the world that pretty much comes on whenever there's any drive activity. Since I need to think about updaging capacity soon, I wanted to start looking at drives that would be, well, quieter.

Bonus points for low power, the intelligence to shut down when the host machine shuts off/goes to sleep, etc...

Comments

[cuthalion.livejournal.com]

Is a NAS thing in a noise-proof closet not an option?

[sol3.livejournal.com]

This is all the media for the media box in my living room (which is why I want the quiet). The box only has a wireless connection to the rest of the network, and while I'm sure said wireless network would be fast enough I'm not sure I want to clutter up the network with a constant stream of audio/video :)

If it was just going to be for network based backup - it'd be a non-issue. (Which reminds me, I should move my backup drives from something that I plug in to the laptop to something that is network mounted).

[tcb.livejournal.com]

I'm planning on getting one of these as soon as we get back and I have a paycheck coming in again. I'm tired of fucking around with primary data storage.

[sol3.livejournal.com]

Because my media center is a mac mini :)