In my PC, Chasis fan and CPU fan used to run at 2500rpm and 2900rpm respectively and it was noisy; then I enabled Fan-Q-control in BIOS and CPU fan came down to 950rpm and consequently machine became silent. I have set to Q-Control is OPTIMUM. According to ASUS tool CPU & SYSTEM temparatures are 12C and 30C respectively; but HDDs are hot and I sensed it physically and this is not scientific way to measure.
I came across an article on standard that HDD manufacturer's compy to and according to that standard HDD is supposed to provide info on it's health...
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6983
Monitoring Hard Disks with SMART
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this may be a useful tip. I'm facing the same issue and its irritating in the night when the world goes to silence.. I'll try this and see if this setting changes.
You can use free s/w 'Speedfan' to control fan speed. And this also shows HDD temperature
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
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