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From: wiseman@tellabs.com (Jeff Wiseman)
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Subject: Re: External Hard Disk noise
Keywords: Hard Disk noise
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Date: 30 Oct 90 18:33:16 GMT
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In article <1990Oct29.135134.4011@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> smith@scotty (Steven Smith) writes:
>We currently have a situation in which we would like to place a MacIIci
>in an extremely quiet setting (and have it remain that way).  We currently

I have a LaCie Quantum based external (actually two of them). The quantum drive
itself is VERY quiet compared to other drives and the LaCie box uses a fan
running at half speed so the fan noise is very low.

One other thing that you may consider is to maybe do something like this: Get a
Quantum drive and a power supply from some hardware vender and mount them so
that the drive and supply can use convection cooling thus eliminating a fan but
making the "minimally enclosed" drive unit a little larger perhaps. I know that
some venders even package drives like this.

The other idea is to get ahold of the issue of MacWorld that they did the dirve
sound level tests on a little ways back (I forget which issue it was but I
think it was this year sometime).

Hope this helps.



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