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<blockquote data-quote="Spragleknas" data-source="post: 81706" data-attributes="member: 17435">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.<a href="http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/410186.html" target="_blank">http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/410186.html</a>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. AndyIt'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.<a href="http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=16732" target="_blank">http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=16732</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Spragleknas, post: 81706, member: 17435"] [i] 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. [url]http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/410186.html[/url] 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. [url]http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=16732[/url] [/i] [/QUOTE]

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