>And WD Raptors sure make a lot more noice than>those 7200 RPM or 5200 RPM harddrives so you shouldn

"By my standards they are very quiet."Mine too.Greg

But please tell me that you are comparing to 15000 RPM SCSI drives or something or I think you all are high on shrooms! It

I have IDE drive in another PC and absolutely do not think my Raptor is any noisier, and I definitely can't hear those 10,000 RPM. Sorry, my hearing is very good - recently passed 3-rd class medical ;-)Michael J.

"So your experience is SCSI drives or I think you are all half deaf"No, all I'm saying is that they don't sound "noisy" to me.What you're arguing here is semantics, not technical issues. If you'll review my posts on this subject you'll see that I state more than once that I don't think the Raptors are particularly noisy. Simple as that. If they seem to be to you, then so be it.Bottom line is... even if they are a bit noisier than standard IDE 7200RPM drives they certainly offset that with their performance. I simply would not enetertain the idea of going back to the slower drives.Cheers, :-beerchug Greg

But then you should say get the Raptors for their speed not their silence it