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.
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Just wait. All recent WD drives get LOUD AS A BANSHEE eventually.
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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...Work-Box:P4C3.0GHz; DFI LAN Party875Pro, GeiL Golden Dragon 512MB PC3500 DDRAM, ==>>PARHELIA 128+ZALMAN HEATPIPE MOD<<==, 2 x WD360 Raptor 36Gig RAID 0, MAXTOR 6Y080L0 80Gig, Plextor PX-W4824A, Toshiba SD-M1612, 2x BenQ FP767 17"TFT
MEDIA-BOX:P4C3,2GHz; ASUS P4P800 Deluxe, GeiL Golden Dragon 512MB PC4000 DDRAM, Radeon9800XT, 2xHitachi HDS722512-VLSA80; RAID0, Plextor PX-116A, PX-708A, Plextor Premium/T3B
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Originally posted by Gurm
Just wait. All recent WD drives get LOUD AS A BANSHEE eventually.
- Gurm
1st ran for slightly over a year, second for 7 days. Nice touch when you have just reinstalled your Windows from your backup.Jordâ„¢
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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.Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice.
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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 ?Attached Files
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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.Jordâ„¢
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Originally posted by Gurm
Just wait. All recent WD drives get LOUD AS A BANSHEE eventually.
- Gurm
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