Acoustic manage tools for my WD and Maxtor HD's?

[ViRaLRuSh]

Does anyone know where I can get them? I can't seem to find them on their websites.

I have a maxtor 20**** and a WD 400B HD.

 

[ViRaLRuSh]

anyone?

 

[Viper96720]

AMSET for Maxtor Didn't find one for WD though the IBM one may work. It worked with a seagate drive. If you got an Intel chipset board with application accelerator it has acoustic management.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Don't think such a beast exists for Western Digital. /goes off to search

- M4H

 

[50]

Can someone tell me what acoustic managment tools are?

 

[Viper96720]

Reduces seek speed to make the drive quieter. I tried it with my drive couldn't tell a difference in sound. Benchmarked slightly lower scores

 

[ViRaLRuSh]

Originally posted by: Viper96720
AMSET for Maxtor Didn't find one for WD though the IBM one may work. It worked with a seagate drive. If you got an Intel chipset board with application accelerator it has acoustic management.

keeps telling me it can't find my maxtor 🙁

 

[Viper96720]

Is the drive one the primary or secondary ide controller or is it on a different controller?

 

[ViRaLRuSh]

think primary slave

 

[Viper96720]

What drive model?

 

[ViRaLRuSh]

Maxtor 2B020H1

 

[GnomeCop]

out of all the HD brand the only ones I've seen acoustic management tools for are IBM and MAxtor...

 

[Viper96720]

It should work. Try using this utillity to set the acoustic management
download the feature tool download
It works with my WD drive. It has a test for acoustic management so you can hear the difference.

 

[0roo0roo]

if its just the seeking clicks then it won't make much of a difference. wd drives have an annoying constant hum from thhe spinning motors gr