Is the 1 TB hard disk quiet?

Does anybody have hands on experience with the iMac with 1 TB hard disk?
I'm especially interested if it is as quiet as the smaller ones.
thanks,
KC

the reason i ask is that the 1TB version of the external iOmega value hard disks that i use are way more noisy than the 500 and 750 GB version.
Please let me know if your machine has arrived.
Oh... and I'm already jealous

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