My hard drive noise is driving me NUTS!

[rommelrommel]

Originally posted by: Naruto

Originally posted by: rommelrommel
This drive absolutely SUCKS! It's a Maxtor D740X 40 Gig, which is actually waiting for a RMA replacement, but I was never really happy with it in the first place. What would be the quietest 7200rpm 8M cache drives around? If there is a quiet SATA drive I might be down for that too. I don't wanna use this replacement drive at all so I can sell it as such.

Same hard drive as u rommel but I got the 80gb version and it should be a FDB drive. Its a D740X-6L. There is something wrong with these D740 hard drives, since Maxtor stopped it pretty fast and made the 8mb DiamondMax 9 series drives. But god its loud like a mother! If i were you, take out the drive and lie it on some books or something. It will be much more quieter, nearly silent even. I tried using grommets or rubber washers to pad the harddrive to the cage, but it was still pretty loud. Can you tell me how RMA the drive? I would gladly rma this drive for a newer maxtor series drive. Even if the drive is slower, it will just feel better if it was quiet. I also have a 40gb Barracuda IV, its totally silent. Boy I can't wait until I RMA this sucker. Don't even bother with rubber grommets or sound dampening pads to wrap around the drive. Grommets are not very effective with this and sound dampening pads will cause it to overheat.

I did the credit card RMA for my maxtor, but mine actually generated an error code in powermax (when I got that P.O.S program working). Unfortunately you'll just get another D740X for RMA replacement probably.

 

[NesuD]

Originally posted by: amcdonald
Mindwreck, I'm going to assume that your standard of "quiet" is not as picky as mine. A stock amd fan is annoying to me.
And I don't know how the external drive sounds, but I'm also not going to spend the ~$300 to find out.
Maxtor makes fine drives, and I use them at work... but if you are looking for silent go with a seagate barracuda V.
Thats what I use in my silent system, and almost everyone else into quiet systems would agree.
For further reduction of vibration/noise, buy thin elastic rope and suspend the drive(s) in the 5.25 bays as shown HERE.

Well the Maxtor DM+9 drives can be about as silent as the seagates if you take the time to set them to run in silent mode. they don't ship preset to the lower performing silent mode like the seagates do but it is a very simple thing to run the AMSET utilty from maxtor to enable silent read and write accesses. I have run mine in this mode just to check it out and the drives were completely silent in this configuration.

 

[stuman74]

Does Seagate offer a 60 or 80 gig drive with 8 MB cache? I am looking for a nice quiet drive as well and at least on newegg, I only saw a 120 GB version with 8 MB. ATA of course, not SATA.

 

[MDE]

NesuD, where can I get that Maxtor utility?

 

[0roo0roo]

http://www.quietpcusa.com/

http://www.quietpcusa.com/acb/showdetl.cfm?&DID=8&Product_ID=1&CATID=1

http://store.yahoo.com/directron/smartdirve.html

http://www.silentpcreview.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=8&page=1

 

[anth0ny]

http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/agreement.htm?setacm.exe,,