Fluid Bearing HD is still Loud

[LeaDxPainT]

I own a DiamondMax Plus D740X 6L080J4 Hard Drive. (80gig 7200 ATA-133) It says in the Specification sheet that this drive has fluid bearings which cut down on noise but it is louder than a hard drive with out the fluid bearings. Could I have disabled this option somehow? The sound I am hearing is a high pitched ring, it's the same no matter what I am doing on the computer and it is definatly the hard drive (I singled it out by only powering it up alone) Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading.

 

[morkinva]

Maybe try Maxtor's Amset utility, but they say the drive comes with the quiet setting enabled already :Q

If this does manage to make it quieter, it will be slower

 

[LeaDxPainT]

I'll give it a try, thanks.

 

[sechs]

Aren't there versions of this drive with and without the fluid dynamic bearings?

You'd have to double check, but I am sure that it's the drives with an "L" in the next to last position in their model number that are FDB.

 

[LeaDxPainT]

that would do it, thanks.