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Quiet 7200rpm hard drive

I'm adding a 7200rpm 3TB data drive to my desktop. I have a long list of drives with 64MB cache and SATA-3 connectors, but what I really want to know is which will be quiet – in particular the read/write crane movement. I've had everything from drives that sound from the other side of the room like marbles rattling around in a cement mixer to drives so quiet that I have to press my head against the case to hear that the heads are moving. Since there are a large number of makes and models of drives that satisfy my performance specs, how can I select ones that are likely to have quiet R/W performance?