I am Not a Geek dot com has posted a showdown between three 40GB hard drives.

Now that we have met all the contenders it is time to compare very
aspects of the drives. First up, noise! Noise is absolutely a concern with PC´s today. Cooling fans, hard drives, and CD-ROMS are the key contributors to noise of a PC. PC´s are getting much louder, mostly because of cooling so if we can save some noise on the hard drive I am all for that.

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