I checked them and GoHarddrive but they usually only have enterprise hard drives and like I said in my post, those would be too loud to sit right next to me.

Thanks to everyone who replied. Majority of the responses were to buy now if in US (which I am). So I bit the bullet and just bought them.

Yeah that’s odd that the description lists them as noise canceling. They are definitely not.

Are you an alt account for the OP? I see you responding to nearly every comment.

As another comment wrote, seems like your best option would be to buy whatever IEMs you like and then buy a USB C cable for it. Just make sure the pins match your IEMs.

The AKG Samsung earphones are decent, especially for the price.

Thanks for sharing! It looks like I’m going to need to avoid the Exos drives then

Oh I see. I hadn’t thought that would be a problem but it makes some sense that home servers would differ from actual professional grade ones thus making the drives very different.

I had not heard of that. Thanks for the tip. Does it make them quieter?

Do you have the Ultrastar models that were made by WD? Or the ones before they were acquired by WD?

I was considering the Ultrastar line too but read they also cna be loud since they’re meant for servers

Thanks for sharing your experience. And yeah, I forgot that reviews tend to be negative. I just figured since it’s WD’s own website they’d try to skew it to be more favorable.

Oh wow that sounds awful. I wasn’t expecting it to be that bad. Thanks for the tip! I hadn’t considered checking YouTube for sound tests.

Wasn’t aware you could mod a Kindle. What does doing this do?

Does anyone know if using Calibre will be affected by this change?