74G WD Raptor

[The PIT]

Not a bad drive. Quiet yes you read it quiet not a single click out of it while I copied stuff across and thats with the case off. Gets a little warm though so it's sat on it's own little cage.

[Kooldino]

10K RPM?

[Helevitia]

Originally posted by Kooldino
10K RPM?

yes...I can't wait to buy my own

[Gurm]

Just wait. All recent WD drives get LOUD AS A BANSHEE eventually.

- Gurm

[Admiral]

Just wait. All recent WD drives get LOUD AS A BANSHEE eventually.

Can't wait to ditch my banshee Raptor for a 160GB Seagate. Found a shop that gives a nice 3 year warranty with it

[lAmerZ]

The Noise of my two 36Gig Raptors (RAID0) were drown out by the CPU-HSFan, which is a Zalman CNPS-7000A-AlCu and the Case-Fans (two Papst 8412 N/2GLE, both spinning@1500rpm)
The RAID0-setup with two 120GB HITACHI HDS722512-VLSA80 of my new rig seems much louder to me, 'cause these drives are making some scratching noise from time to time (just like the IBM SCSI-Drives). What else can I say? Raptors are cheaper and quieter than SCSI-Drives and perform better than 7200rpm-PATA-Drives...

[Jorden]

Originally posted by Gurm
Just wait. All recent WD drives get LOUD AS A BANSHEE eventually.

- Gurm

Which still sounds better than a silent Maxtor that crashes on you when you just move your mouse. Had that happen to two D740X drives in a row.

1st ran for slightly over a year, second for 7 days. Nice touch when you have just reinstalled your Windows from your backup.

[Helevitia]

Originally posted by Jorden
Which still sounds better than a silent Maxtor that crashes on you when you just move your mouse. Had that happen to two D740X drives in a row.

1st ran for slightly over a year, second for 7 days. Nice touch when you have just reinstalled your Windows from your backup.

Whoa! Welcome back Jord

[Admiral]

Now, WD wouldn't happen to have a utility that lets you play with your drive's noise level like other manufacturers do, would they ?

[Jorden]

Why don't you check around on http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp ?!

Btw, thx Hele. Just hope I can leave a better impression this time. Else a better expression. :P

[Admiral]

I did that before Jord, there's only the Diagnostic (error checking) tool and the Data Lifeguard (partitioning, formating...) one, both coming in DOS and Windows flavor.

btw, welcome back

[Jorden]

You can always try another manufacturer's "make silent" app. As I understand, Maxtor's app works on a lot of drives non-Maxtor as well.

Mind, I don't endorse you doing it. I'll be off these forums before you can sue me (again).

[Admiral]

If Maxtor's tool is amset, then it doesn't recognize my drive.

[Jorden]

Hope you don't have it on a controller card? For if you do, you need to attach it to a local IDE port, then run the amset utility, or else it won't find the drive.

Although, if your drive is either a WD Caviar models AC11200, AC22000, AC22500, AC33200, AC34000, AC34300 or AC35100, get this firmware update which will reduce your noise levels.

[The PIT]

Originally posted by Gurm
Just wait. All recent WD drives get LOUD AS A BANSHEE eventually.

- Gurm

For once I can say wrong wrong wrong wrong. Quiet as a mouse in fact a mouse is noiser. Couldn't hear with the case open certainly can't with the case shut. Gets a little warm though.