On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 02:37:09PM -0700, Brian de Alwis wrote:

> does anybody have any
> recommendations for very quiet notebook drives?

Get a hard-disk that uses a fluid instead of ball
bearings. Those are removed and a thick fluid is
used instead, does almost no noise unless disk's head
is under heavy work (and when it happens you will
hear its tick-tick-tick but it's faint). The "AS" model
drivers from Quantum got this technology but perhaps
other brands offer models with ball-bearings removed.

-- 
Gilbert Fernandes