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Quiet hard drive

From what I can tell, it's been quite some time since anyone's asked for external hard drive recommendations. My current drive seems perhaps a bit shaky (yes, it's backed up), and I'll soon be replacing it. I want what everyone wants: quiet, reliable, large enough. Any favorite brands -- or ones to avoid?
The drive is attached to a Mac Mini, with my CD collection (slightly less than 1,000 discs) stored in Apple Lossless. Thanks for your recommendations.
-- Howard
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The Western Digital Caviar Green series in 1T, 1.5T and 2T sizes are very quiet (Idle Noise 24 dB; Seek Noise 29 dB). Install in an external drive case of your choice.

Quieter than this, look for 2.5" laptop form factor drives or SSD drives, but the capacity goes way down.
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