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Harddisk spinning noise
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 22:07:56 +0200, Knowing that it was a Hollywood
invention that lemmings jump off cliffs Halfgaar wrote : Hi, I was wondering. Do most modern hard drives use liquid bearings? And if they do, does that mean that their spinning noise is virtually nothing? When I want a new harddrive, I want one that hardly produces any spinning noise. I don't care about head noise, because it's only incidental. I know that the Seagate Baracude ATA V (I believe it was the V) is a silent drive when it comes to the spinning noise. I was wondering if all the differences in noise hardwarereviewers talk about is in spinning noise or head noise and how much difference there is in spinning noise among all the hardrives. My Maxtor 40 gig is totally silent.My older IBM 20 gig is very quiet. My 10 penn'th. -- Free Windows/PC help, http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/trouble.html It's a G not a J in gmx for email Free songs download, http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/nomessiahsmusic.htm |
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My ears aren't that great. I can't hear most modern hard drives spinning. I
generally think that if I can hear it, it might be on the verge of a problem. "Halfgaar" wrote in message ... Hi, I was wondering. Do most modern hard drives use liquid bearings? And if they do, does that mean that their spinning noise is virtually nothing? When I want a new harddrive, I want one that hardly produces any spinning noise. I don't care about head noise, because it's only incidental. I know that the Seagate Baracude ATA V (I believe it was the V) is a silent drive when it comes to the spinning noise. I was wondering if all the differences in noise hardwarereviewers talk about is in spinning noise or head noise and how much difference there is in spinning noise among all the hardrives. -- To send me, Halfgaar, email, remove remove from my email address. |
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My dell notebook has a 60GB Hitachi drive (I forget all the speeds and what
not) but it's spinning bareley makes more noise than my breathing, although it is inclosed in some mounting hardware all arround it, which silences it some. Also, a few days ago, a friend gave me a 10 GB drive that he ordered from somewhere but never ended up using, still packaged, never used... I"m not even sure what brand it is....it's probably some crap brand...looks pretty cheapily built too, from the outside...but it's disk spinning is virtually silent. Nic "Halfgaar" wrote in message ... Hi, I was wondering. Do most modern hard drives use liquid bearings? And if they do, does that mean that their spinning noise is virtually nothing? When I want a new harddrive, I want one that hardly produces any spinning noise. I don't care about head noise, because it's only incidental. I know that the Seagate Baracude ATA V (I believe it was the V) is a silent drive when it comes to the spinning noise. I was wondering if all the differences in noise hardwarereviewers talk about is in spinning noise or head noise and how much difference there is in spinning noise among all the hardrives. -- To send me, Halfgaar, email, remove remove from my email address. |
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On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 22:07:56 +0200, Halfgaar
wrote: I was wondering. Do most modern hard drives use liquid bearings? And if they do, does that mean that their spinning noise is virtually nothing? When I want a new harddrive, I want one that hardly produces any spinning noise. mostly yes & they are quiet BUT : when the warranty is over (few days later) they tend to start be louder more and more ... after few months later, they become noisy IMHO (my experience with my QuantumF+AS) -- Regards, SPAJKY & visit site - http://www.spajky.vze.com Celly-III OC-ed,"Tualatin on BX-Slot1-MoBo!" E-mail AntiSpam: remove ## |
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On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 22:07:56 +0200, Halfgaar
wrote: Hi, I was wondering. Do most modern hard drives use liquid bearings? And if they do, does that mean that their spinning noise is virtually nothing? When I want a new harddrive, I want one that hardly produces any spinning noise. I don't care about head noise, because it's only incidental. I know that the Seagate Baracude ATA V (I believe it was the V) is a silent drive when it comes to the spinning noise. I was wondering if all the differences in noise hardwarereviewers talk about is in spinning noise or head noise and how much difference there is in spinning noise among all the hardrives. Most do, but the popular WD "BB" and "JB" series do not, are noticeably louder as a result. Dave |
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Spajky wrote:
mostly yes & they are quiet BUT : when the warranty is over (few days later) they tend to start be louder more and more ... after few months later, they become noisy IMHO (my experience with my QuantumF+AS) That would be quite inconvinient. Is that true for all brands? -- To send me, Halfgaar, email, remove remove from my email address. |
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Shepİ wrote:
My Maxtor 40 gig is totally silent.My older IBM 20 gig is very quiet. My 10 penn'th. And what is tottally silent? When I didn't pay any attention to noise, my harddisk seemed quite silent too. But now, since I've made my computer much more silent, when I spin down the drive almost all the noise is gone. BTW, my current drive is a Seage Baracude ATA II, ball bearing I believe. They have a reputation of being loud, but I don't know if people mean head- or spinning noise with that. -- To send me, Halfgaar, email, remove remove from my email address. |
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On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 15:37:40 +0200, Knowing that it was a Hollywood
invention that lemmings jump off cliffs Halfgaar wrote : Shepİ wrote: My Maxtor 40 gig is totally silent.My older IBM 20 gig is very quiet. My 10 penn'th. And what is tottally silent? When I didn't pay any attention to noise, my harddisk seemed quite silent too. But now, since I've made my computer much more silent, when I spin down the drive almost all the noise is gone. My maxtor cannot be heard above the sound of my CPU fan which is very quiet as I use an 80mm Case fan on my CPU at lower RPMs than the supplied fan, http://superfan.freewebspace.com/ -- Free Windows/PC help, http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/trouble.html It's a G not a J in gmx for email Free songs download, http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/nomessiahsmusic.htm |
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On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 15:37:40 +0200, Halfgaar
wrote: Shepİ wrote: My Maxtor 40 gig is totally silent.My older IBM 20 gig is very quiet. My 10 penn'th. And what is tottally silent? When I didn't pay any attention to noise, my harddisk seemed quite silent too. But now, since I've made my computer much more silent, when I spin down the drive almost all the noise is gone. BTW, my current drive is a Seage Baracude ATA II, ball bearing I believe. They have a reputation of being loud, but I don't know if people mean head- or spinning noise with that. I usually refer to noise as the spinning, since many modern drives have accoustic management settings to change the seek noise (speed). Dave |
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On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 15:34:52 +0200, Halfgaar
wrote: Spajky wrote: mostly yes & they are quiet BUT : when the warranty is over (few days later) they tend to start be louder more and more ... after few months later, they become noisy IMHO (my experience with my QuantumF+AS) That would be quite inconvinient. Is that true for all brands? not sure but as I found out about generally all stuff sadly last years things happen just like this ... :-( ... (TVs, monitors, cars etc..) throw after use production of latest years ... -- Regards, SPAJKY & visit site - http://www.spajky.vze.com Celly-III OC-ed,"Tualatin on BX-Slot1-MoBo!" E-mail AntiSpam: remove ## |
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