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Seek Noise

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wetcat007

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I was thinking about seek noise you know the grind that some hard drives make, why do some brands/types of harddrives have a real loud seek noise, some not so loud, and some inaudible, even if they all have identical seek times? Wouldn't it make sense for the manufactuars to stick to one design for seeking? For instant my 30GB maxtor has 8.6ms seek times, and the seeks are dead silent, however a new Maxtor 120GB with the same seek times, is LOUD. What exactly is it that determiners seek noise? Is it just manufactuars trying to save a buck or what?

-Mark
 
I had (have) a Maxtor VL40, which is very slow at seeks, but unless I take the case off and shove my ear into the hard drive, I can hear no seeks at all.

Acoustic management also tones down seeks, so I believe that slower seeks = quieter seeks.
 
Segate's are the quietest and coolest, but they are not the best proforming.

I think on all newer WD's and Maxtor's you can turn on acoutic management and take a proformance hit to get them to inaudable. If they do better in this mode then the segate's is debatable.

IBM's and Fujitsu's are LOUD MOTHAS.

-Chu
 
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