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RE: Quiet storage

2.5" drives typically used in laptops are very quiet. Unless you put your ear right up to them you are not likely to hear them at your listening position. An external USB drive that uses 2.5" HDD technology will work great and cost very little.

USB SSD's will be totally quiet but at that capacity they can be rather pricey.

The other option is a NAS in another room but now you have another device on the network that needs to be managed. No big deal but it's not quite as straight forward as plugging in a USB drive.

Seagate 2TB USB HDD on Amazon

Samsung 2TB USB 3.1 SSD with USB adapter cable on Amazon. This one is about $750. They have a smaller capacity version at 1TB for about $400.



Edits: 02/03/17
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