Rog�o Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, All.
Hi. > > I just bought myself a brand new iBook 600MHz combo, with a > 20GB HD. It is a nice machine and I'm surprised with the > crispness of its LCD, compared with other notebooks that I > have used in the past. I'm using iBook 500MHz DVD. > > But it is not perfect: its HD seems *quite* noisy when it is > reading random tracks and this is worrying me a lot, even > though is is relatively silent during sequential reads (but it > can still be heard). My HDD seems to be *a little* noisy after I've changed filesystem from ext2 to ext3. Do you use ext3? > > So, I would like to know if this is common with the new iBooks > with large HDs or if I should exchange it with a new one. I am > afraid of losing data if it is defective and dies soon. :-( > > The information that made me worry about this is that at > http://www.xiph.org/~jack/ibook/thoughts.html, Jack says that > the machine (his is an iBook 500) is quite silent and that he > can't usually hear the it work when he is in a silent > environment. > > Well, any comments are more than welcome. > > > Thanks in advance, Roger... > > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Rog�o Brito - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/ > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
