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From: anderson@dogie.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
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Subject: Re: Noise Noise Noise
Message-ID: <1991Jun8.024104.15164@macc.wisc.edu>
Date: 8 Jun 91 02:41:04 GMT
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In article <1676@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P.
Scott) writes:

>In article <4243@borg.cs.unc.edu>
>raymond@picasso.cs.unc.edu Will Raymond) writes:

>>My cube with OD and 330 meg. drive is loud loud loud.

>All ODs are noisy when they seek.  As for the 330s, that's a
>problem with the individual drive.  In my experience, NeXT's
>Maxtor drives have been practically dead quiet, and their HP
>drives have had noise problems.

My home machine has a Maxtor 330.  The cube is under the
table.  It took me the longest time to locate the source of
this very peculiar whirring noise I kept hearing at 2:00
a.m.  One night I was down there on my hands and knees,
fiddling with the thin wire connecting the cube to my AT,
with my ear all but touching the cube.  At 2:00, cron runs
the widgie that prunes log files; that funny little noise
proved to be the cube's disk.  So it possible to make a
very quiet disk; wonder why more people don't do it?  A
Miniscribe in a 386 machine I used to use at work was also
very quiet.

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