"John H." wrote in message
On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 20:55:21 +0100, Marc de Vries wrote:

On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 16:22:07 -0700, Jerry wrote:

Since Hitachi took over IBM's Hard Drives, are they better or much
the same.

Still great disks. (not counting a certain production batch of 75GXP
IBM disks of course :-))

At the moment the 7K250 is easily the fastest 7200 rpm disk that you
can buy. It also very quiet. (Quite a large difference to my DiamonMax
Plus9 disks)

What kind of sound does it make when moving the heads to prevent heat
buildup?

Anything like the 1-2 second sound every 10 minutes for the 180GXP?

In 10 minutes the heads will have lighted up themselfs and that
particular platter area if staying in the same place for that long.