Best Hard Drive? (1 Viewer)

[Spragleknas]

The Seagate drives I have had have been practically noiseless, so I never saw much need for AAM. It may depend on the drive type, etc, though.

If it is an IDE disk - then it is allready set to low-noise . but the SATA-disk are set at performance, thus; more noise... if I remember correctly.

 

[jawbroken]

I have both IDE and SATA seagate drives in my htpc, I don't notice any difference in noise between the two (they are both 320gb drives, just the control board is different I believe).

 

[Spragleknas]

Quote: Seagate SATA drives do have a louder seek noise than the Seagate IDE drives. The reason is that on the SATA drives AAM (automatic acoustic management) is not enabled because of some royalty or legal reason. AAM slows down the seek time on the hard drive resulting in a small performance loss but a big drop in seek noise.

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/410186.html

Quote: andyb wrote:
I have 2 x 200GB seagates, one SATA one PATA, the SATA is most definitley noisier than the PATA, i will have a look, and tell you where they are from, and when they were made.

Andy


It's normal.
Seagate not using Automatic Acoustic Management instead of it they sell:
-IDE drives with factory set silent mode
-SATA drives with factory set performance mode

Unfortunately you can't change these factory presets.
If you test your two drives access time you get around 12-13ms with the SATA version and 14-15ms with the normal IDE version.

http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=16732

 

[jawbroken]

Yeah, I have read that. I am just saying that i can only hear either of them with my ear right up to the drives, and when I close my case I can't hear them at all. So the SATA is probably louder, but it doesn't make much difference in practice, at least for me.

 

[Spragleknas]

Depends much on the case....