[CUBE] Hitachi hard drives

[Eagle]

Take a listen:  http://homepage.mac.com/eagle243/misc/iMac_noise.mov

Or, if you prefer AIFF: 
http://homepage.mac.com/eagle243/misc/iMac_noise.aiff

Note: those are very noisy, poor-quality audio recordings.  The second 
has had the volume increased, but it also amplified the background 
noise (greatly), so the QT may be better.

Eagle

On Jan 16, 2004, at 11:25, Alan Thompson wrote:
> what's the feature?  describe it, please.  how is it annoying, what is 
> the behaviour?
>
> On Jan 16, 2004, at 6:53 AM, Eagle wrote:
>
>> apparently these Hitachi/IBM DeskStar drives have this REALLY 
>> annoying, uh, "feature" which is supposed to prolong the life of the 
>> drive.