External harddrives: how noisy?

[Frisbee]

Hey;

I'm just wondering: those external USB2 or Firewire hard disks, are they more noisy than internal ones?

Todays 5400rpm drives are almost completely silent, so is that still the case for external ones?
I might just buy an external model to store audio & video.

Cheers;
Carl

 

[uther]

They aren't too bad. You can hear them run, but probably not over your case fans.

 

[uther]

They aren't too bad. You can hear them run, but probably not over your case fans.