[CUBE] Noise difference between 40GB and 80GB

Eagle eagle243 at mac.com
Thu Apr 24 06:15:16 PDT 2003


On Thursday, Apr 24, 2003, at 09:04 US/Eastern, Lithium wrote:
> I have two Barracuda IV drives, 40GB and 80GB.
>
> 40GB one is really quiet but 80GB one is not. I know 40GB one has one 
> platter and 80GB one has two. Two platters make the difference so much 
> or my 80GB one is defective?

I would suggest going to Seagate's site and comparing the noise specs 
of the two drives - perhaps the 80GB is rated more noisy than the 40GB 
one.

Just a thought.

Eagle



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