It’s my party and I’ll buy if I want to
I purchased a co-workers computer to be my second. It’s nothing special, 2.4 gig Dell. The striking thing is how quiet it is. My main computer, a 2.4 gig built by me, screams and I mean noise not speed. I work around computers every day and they make noise. I just figured mine made a little extra. The computer scream is the same frequency as the ringing in my ears. Coincidence? I got down there, under the desk, poking my finger in the fans trying to discover what’s making all that noise. It’s the hard drive – no surprise there.
I entered “quite hard drive” into Google and chose the one with quiet PC in the name. There was a list of “quiet” hard drives. I scanned the list till I found a 250 gig Samsung. I found it on New-Egg, my supplier of choice, read the reviews, it sounded like exactly what I was looking for.
I also have a GeForce 6800 video card that has a noisy fan. I easily found a “quiet” fan replacement for $21. Both the hard drive and fan should be here next Tuesday.
Although a clean install is an attractive thing, I’ve decided to try and drag all my stuff over instead. The drive I’m replacing is a 120 gig Western Digital with around 50 gig used. I have a 120 gig external firewire drive that came with Ghost 2003 and that’s the system I’m going to try.
I broke out the external and got that all going. It required an un-install of Ghost and then a re-install. To image the new drive I’ll need to boot from the Ghost CD. I’ve not tried that yet.