Maxtor drives & Acoustic Management

shyguy74

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Jan 26, 2001
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I know that Maxtor DiamondMax drives default to "quiet" mode, and that you can download a utility to change it to "fast" mode or turn off acoustic management, but my question is, is the difference in performance *noticeable*? I'm not talking about benchmarks here (I've seen all of those), but everyday usage, like booting up, loading programs, copying files, etc, is there an actual difference in speed? What about noise levels... is it a perceptible increase if going from quiet mode?

 

eplebnista

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Dec 3, 2001
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Hello,

I have been using two 40gb 7200rpm U100 drives in Raid 0 for a while now and they are very quiet even with Acoustic Management disabled. I have never really benched them or anythin, though my system seems a lot smoother when opening, scrolling, etc.

eplebnista