The sound would be of the disks spinning up, not from the caddy/power itself. So you should be alright with any of them.
If you want some extra 'wow' factor, but would spend few quid more, then go for a "NAS" type, it'll plug into your rooter and everything can access it. Or you can get caddies with HDMI ports that essenchally do the job for you.

How are you plugging it into the telly?
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 16:16, 2 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

I don't want anyting like that as I'll have to run cables around my fireplace and it's a non starter
I just want to put my hard disk in a caddy and then plug the caddy into the telly via USB.
( Bazongaloid, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 16:18, Reply)

Cool, ok, this is how I'd do it.
I'd get one USB cable, run it behind the telly and let it loose into where you're planning to keep the media equipment. I'd then get two identical caddies (if they're laptop you can skip this bit) so the power sockets are the same, and run the power cable too behind it. Now you can hot-swap one disk for another when you want it. You might want to put some masking tape over the light too.

With the other caddie's powercable and USB cable, you can keep that attached to where-ever your computer is, so you can hot-swap on that end for loading content.

Forget all the extras like RAID, NAS and Media, go for cheap and one that looks right for your setup. Cheaper ones don't have coolants.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 16:28, Reply)

Also, I thought some caddies had fans that could be noisy?

( Bazongaloid, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 16:19, Reply)

A lot do have fans, some are open without.
But the HDDs will be noisier than both.
( Kroney, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 16:21, Reply)

Noted.
So which one should I get?
( Bazongaloid, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 16:23, Reply)

The one Chompy linked to would be fine
but you're fundamentally just buying a SATA to USB adaptor, so you can't go too far wrong whatever you buy. I wouldn't spend more than fifty quid on one for this reason.
( Kroney, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 16:26, Reply)

I saw some on Amazon for about 15 20 quid, is that ludicrously cheap or perfectly reasonable?

( Bazongaloid, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 16:31, Reply)

I guess the expensive ones might, but I've never bought one with, and pretty much every hard drive I've ever had is in a caddy somewhere.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 16:24, Reply)