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From: bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt)
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Subject: Re: A2000 discoveries
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In article <16196@> kim@amdahl.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) writes:
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>I recently described the sound of my A1000 drives as "a cement mixer full
>of rocks".  Actually, that was a bit kind ...
>
>...Now, with StepRate, the 1000's drives sound almost as soothing as that
>dentist's drill ...


The Amiga 1000 at least comes with a pattented "drive noise amplification
and dispersion unit".  Ie. the case.  The bare drive unit makes about
half the noise.  Adding foam shock mounts drops the noise by about 10%.
I have not tried full acoustical lining... afraid of the heat.

You can gently spread a thin coating of light machine oil on the rails
of some drives to drop the noise by another 15% or so.

Or just get lots of RAM and don't use the physical drives :-).

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