[PLUG] quiet IDE drives?

[Chris Jantzen]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 04:27:45PM -0800, Russell Senior wrote:
> >>>>> "Mike" == Mike De La Mater <mikedela at theplatinumrule.com> writes:
> 
> Mike> On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 15:22, Russell Senior wrote:
> >> it turns out to be disk whine instead.
> 
> Mike> Is it SCSI by any chance? 
> 
> Nope.  Maxtor 30gig IDE's of some description.  Ah:
> 
>   $ cat /proc/ide/hda/model 
>   Maxtor 5T030H3
>   $ cat /proc/ide/hdc/model
>   Maxtor 5T030H3
> 
> It appears I am looking for the Seagate 340016A or 380021A (40 and 80
> gig, respectively).  "Ultra quiet operation", or so enuinc.com says.

The Barracuda 7200.7 series are very, very quiet. After upgrading to
them, I coulda sworn I didn't have drives anymore. :-)

-- 
chris kb7rnl =->
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