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From: owen@raven.phys.washington.edu (Russell Owen)
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Subject: Re: Hard Disk Questions / Silver Lining
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Date: 9 Nov 90 18:40:13 GMT
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We have several Quantum 80 Mb and one Quantum 170 Mb hard drives, and the
170 is much noisier during seeks. It is not obnoxious, just noticeable.
All of our drives are very quiet, with almost no whine, even after three
years of heavy use for two of the 80 Mb drives. We are very pleased with
all of the drives.

We also use SilverLining (the drives are all from LaCie, so SilverLining 
comes with them) and we also observed some claimed degredation with the 
170 Mb hard drive. I have no idea if it is real, or a bug in 
SilverLining's timing routines. I haven't worried about it. The 170 Mb 
drive is very fast, and I didn't notice any speed change when I went from 
80 Mb to 170. I suggest calling LaCie to see if they have an explanation.

Russell Owen
owen@raven.phys.washington.edu
Astronomy Dept. FM-20
University of Washington
Seattle, WA  98195