[mythtv-users] 120GB Cuda At Best Buy for $99

[Jeff Williams]

After reading a bit more about this (no reason for me to do so except curiosity, but I didn't want to give anyone bad info either), it seems that there is no utility that can do acoustic management on the 7200.7.  This strikes me as extremely odd.  I would bet the drive itself is fully capable of acoustic management but the software currently available is not capable of interfacing with the acoustic management feature of the drive.  Seagate must have some internal software capable of doing it that allowed them to get their test results.

I would honestly not purchase a drive without being able to set the acoustic management of the drive.  Apparently this is not the only Barracuda model with this "problem".  Stick with Maxtor - the Diamondmax Plus 9's also use fluid drives and I've never heard of one that couldn't have its acoustics set.  I am not sure if other manufacturers have yet switched over to fluid drives or not (standard motors generally have a whine, which can get louder over time as the bearings wear out - fluid motors do not have this problem).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edward Wildgoose [mailto:Edward.Wildgoose at FRMHedge.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 11:16 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] 120GB Cuda At Best Buy for $99
> 
> 
> I'm not sure about that.  I haven't tried for myself, 
> however, after a quick google I see the following article:
> http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/seagatebarrst280011a/
> 
> halfway down:
> "According to Seagate Automatic Acoustic Management Utility 
> V1.01 and IBM Feature Tool V1.10, Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 
> drives DO NOT SUPPORT the asoucstic management mode. "
> 
> Also, HDParm does NOT want to change the params on this drive
> 
> Anyone else had a different experience with this drive?  So 
> far I am disappointed, I had ordered a Baraccuda V, but 
> neglected to check the packaging carefully before opening it...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Williams [mailto:JeffW at rockstargames.com]
> Sent: 04 August 2003 15:55
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] 120GB Cuda At Best Buy for $99
> 
> 
> There's probably an acoustic management function you need to 
> turn on.  Check Seagate's web site.  You can also do this 
> under Linux with hdparm, although I have never trusted this - 
> I'd rather use a utility provided by the drive manufacturer.
> 
> This is also true of pretty much every other drive.  I've 
> found drive manufacturers to be inconsistent with how they 
> set their acoustic management depending on how they're 
> positioning a drive in the marketplace.  For example, I have 
> two Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9's - one of which purchased 
> retail, the other purchased OEM through Newegg.  The retail 
> version had acoustic management turned off on initial boot 
> and was extremely loud.  The OEM version had acoustic 
> management on and set to quiet.  Performance of all current 
> IDE drives is roughly the same given the same acoustic 
> management setting.  A drive set on "quiet" will perform 
> perfectly well for Myth...
> 
> My Maxtor drives are both extremely quiet now with AM turned on.  
> 
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