Re: Looking for quiet Harddisk

2003-01-18 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 05:23:14PM +0100, Claas Langbehn wrote: > The "Seagate Barracuda V" shall be amazingly quiet. > i only can speak about barracuda IV. they are. even after half a year it was hardly audible. then it went up in smoke - doesn't seem to happen too often, though. one thing to not

Re: Looking for quiet Harddisk

2003-01-18 Thread Gary Sandine
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 09:23, Claas Langbehn wrote: > The "Seagate Barracuda V" shall be amazingly quiet. I second that. I have extensive experience (I own a Web-based PC shop for 2.5 years) with IBM, Western Digital, and Seagate (7200 rpm IDE), and Seagate is typically quieter out of the box and

Re: Looking for quiet Harddisk

2003-01-18 Thread Ivo Marino
How are you going to connect your iBook with your TV. On my iBook I gave only the standard VGA output, or digital video output for monitors, no SVGA or composite which I could use with my TV. Best regards, I. On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 04:03:15PM +0100, Roland Wegmann wrote: > Hello > > I have i

Re: Looking for quiet Harddisk

2003-01-18 Thread Benjamin Fritzsche
I Know there is one from Seagate which is specially designed for silence. Must be hardly possible to tell if its spinning or not. Can't remember the model name though. think it was 80 GB. greets Benny On Saturday 18 January 2003 16:03, Roland Wegmann wrote: > Hello > > I have in mind to buy a

Looking for quiet Harddisk

2003-01-18 Thread Roland Wegmann
Hello I have in mind to buy a new harddrive (100-120GB). On this Harddrive I will store all my private videos and sound. Further I will connect this Harddrive (in an external firewire case) with my hi-fi unit or my TV set via my iBook (playing sound or movies) and therefore the harddisk should be