So, I've bought two new Hitachi HDD's: one with 1TB storage and the other with 2TB of storage. Both are noisier than normal but the 1TB one is still under reasonable limits... The 2TB disk, though, ...
I built a new PC a few months ago. The first thing I noticed was that the seek noise from the hard drive was super loud. I never had that problem with Seagate drives. But I decided to give WD a try ...