maggior;268474 Wrote: > Part of it is that new drives are designed with minimal acoustic levels > as a requirement. The other part of it is that drives get louder as > they age. Over time, the bearings in the drive will wear and get > louder. It happens so gradually that you don't really notice it until > one day you think "damn, that drive is loud".
It is actually the new hard disk that has annoying sound characteristics (old one is a 80GB BarracudaIV which has some damping material on the lower side and new one is a Seagate ST3320620A, both are 7200rpm drives). In my HP NAS docking station also a very noisy drive is used, altough in that case the mounting may be responsible for most of the noise. If I remember correctly Samsung markets some of its' drives as low noise models and other manufactures certainly do that too nowadays. Bye, signor_rossi. -- signor_rossi ------------------------------------------------------------------------ signor_rossi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11941 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43319 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
