Cheetah X15

[cwand]

My X15 makes a high-pitch whine that is killing my ears. Does anyone know of a SCSI HD that is quiet? I'm thinking about dropping down to the IBM 36LZX "Discovery" 10K RPM. Anyone know how quiet this unit is?

 

[Wah]

My x15 is very quiet. Maybe something is wrong with yours?

 

[kyoshozx]

My cheetah 18xl is pretty quiet. It's not much noisier than the 75gxp ibm drive i have in the case.

 

[bacillus]

<< My X15 makes a high-pitch whine that is killing my ears >>


mine does make that noise but only at startup when it's spinning up. it's otherwise reasonably quiet!

 

[rlism]

I've been told the Fujitsu 10k drives are amazingly quiet.
Dunno if you'd really wanna go with that brand though.

I replaced my laptop IBM HD with a fujitsu solely for its quietness.
IBM laptop drives are LOUD.

 

[DoctorBooze]

I remember someone saying on another thread here that IBM have a program on their web site to do acoustic tuning on their drives. Maybe you could go have a look for that, and it might fix some internal drive settings to shut the damn thing up?

 

[teknoid]

I believe I'd call Seagate support about it. I have one of the X15's along with a Quantum 10K and the X15 is WAY quieter than the 10K.

 

[fkloster]

I can't even hear me X-15.

 

[andrey]

While my 36LZX (18.3 Gb) is not the quitest drive in the world, it definetely not as loud as Seagate Cheetah X15 (I have both of these drives at work, and I can compare them to each other). As far as speed differnces in the everyday business, I can't really say there is too much between them. Both IBM and Seagate let open pretty much any application virtually without waiting hourglass. I hope this helps,

 

[Radboy]

In their conclusion here, SR had this to say about the X15:

For a drive that seeks at a mere 4 milliseconds, the X15 is amazingly quiet. Seeks are just a tad louder than the Cheetah 18XL, itself a relatively quiet drive. Unfortunately, though, idle noise has suffered. The drive features a tell-tale high-spindle-speed whine. We must admit we've grown a bit spoiled in this age of third and fourth-generation 10k drives, where high-pitch squeals have pretty much faded away. The X15 features idle noise that we haven't heard of since the likes of the Cheetah 9LP.

 

[cwand]

Radboy-

that's exactly what I'm talking about.

 

[Radboy]

prolly means u don't have enuf fans to drown out the whine.

i put all my 10Krpm drives (ibm) behind twin-fan hdd coolers (pc power &amp; cooling bay coolers). this seems to help.

do u have the pc on the floor?