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From: smedley@.udel.edu (Trevor Smedley)
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Subject: Re: loud IIsi drive
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Date: 14 Mar 91 15:43:14 GMT
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In article <1991Mar13.194446.3083@monsanto.com>, wchutt@monsanto.com writes:

|> The drive that was shipped with the system was so loud (I could hear it from
|> two rooms away in my home) I returned it to the dealer for to be replaced.
|> This second drive is less noisy but it is still quite loud.
|> 
|> The dealer says "all of these new slim drives are real noisy". But I can't
|> believe Apple would pick a device that is such a nuisance.

When I received my IIsi 2/40 the drive that was in it was the quietest I have ever encountered.   The sticker on it said Conner xxxx (where xxxx is some four digit number -- the same as the one which MacWorld said was extremely quiet.)  A few months later this drive failed, and was replaced with a Quantum (I think).  This is much louder -- but it works fine!  So the dealer was lying when he said that all the slim drives are real noisy -- it may just be that all the slim drives that work are noisy :-)

Trevor Smedley
smedley@udel.edu