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Isaac Richards wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Sunday 22 February 2004 07:59 am, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Friday 20 February 2004 18:48, J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Chris Petersen wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Look into the Barracuda 7200.7 line...
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<pre wrap="">Speaking of which, I think there is a deal for one of these listed at
techbargains.com right now.. $130 or so for a 200G drive.
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<pre wrap="">I've got the 200gb 7200.7 in my main Myth box. It's hot, but I've never
heard it running, not even during boot up.
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<pre wrap="">Yeah, I got one of these a little while back via the rebate CompUSA was
offering ($100 after rebates), and I was quite surprised & impressed at how
quiet it is. I can never hear it running at all, even when there's a lot
of disk activity.
I hear the Barracuda V is even quieter, if that's possible.
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Just an update on the Seagate 7200.7: I bought a 200GB 7200.7 last week, and
it exhibits the behavior described here:
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Basically, when the drive is idle for a a little bit, it will, all on its own,
decide to start seeking around and reading mass amounts of data.
It's relatively loud and very annoying, when the computer would otherwise be
quiet. I've worked around this by running a little shell script that runs
'hdparm -I /dev/hdb' every second to prevent the drive from ever being
detected as idle, but that's not really an ideal solution. I certainly would
not have bought the drive if I had known of this in advance.
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Weird, my 160GB ATA100 model hasn't ever done that yet... when I'm
active on the computer there's always music playing, so it woulnd't
happen, but the hard drive was never doing useless seeking like that
when I get up, or come back from school, where it would be idle for
hours. Maybe a different firmware version...<br>
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Pete<br>
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