With 5400 rpm the disk is not a racer, but extremely quiet. Man can hear noise operation only if one operates the drive is dismantled and returned and put your ear to it. In the installed condition it is not audible. Buyer have to pay for some suppliers to the technical specifications, so if you look for a plate. It is often marketed under the name Seagate namely because Seagate has taken the hard disk production by Samsung. On the label of the disk, however, it stands tall Samsung and only very small, the Internet address of Seagate as an indication of the manufacturer.