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From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
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Subject: Re: IDE drives: good or evil?
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Date: 19 Feb 91 06:16:03 GMT
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hp0p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Hokkun Pang) writes:
>are IDE drives generally noisier than other types? my IDE is as noisy as hell!

Depends on the drive.  Conners and Maxtors are so quiet that it drives you
insane.  On those two drives you want the LED hooked up otherwise you'd never
know that it's working.  My running joke about those *VERY* quiet IDE and SCSI
3.5" drives is that there's really a little elf inside of the computer writing
the data down on a noiseless marker board.

     // JCA

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