raymond@picasso.cs.unc.edu (Will Raymond) (06/07/91)
My cube with OD and 330 meg. drive is loud loud loud.
It's in the same room I sleep in - gotta turn it off to get any
shut eye. It really gets annoying about 3:45 am. I wish the video cable
could stretch 120' then I'd keep the cube in the shed behind the
house. ;-) That should be far enough.
Will
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| U | I speak for myself.eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) (06/08/91)
[bogus "comp" Distribution: removed] In article <4243@borg.cs.unc.edu> raymond@picasso.cs.unc.edu Will Raymond) writes: >My cube with OD and 330 meg. drive is loud loud loud. All ODs are noisy when they seek. As for the 330s, that's a problem with the individual drive. In my experience, NeXT's Maxtor drives have been practically dead quiet, and their HP drives have had noise problems. -=EPS=-
anderson@dogie.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) (06/08/91)
In article <1676@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes: >In article <4243@borg.cs.unc.edu> >raymond@picasso.cs.unc.edu Will Raymond) writes: >>My cube with OD and 330 meg. drive is loud loud loud. >All ODs are noisy when they seek. As for the 330s, that's a >problem with the individual drive. In my experience, NeXT's >Maxtor drives have been practically dead quiet, and their HP >drives have had noise problems. My home machine has a Maxtor 330. The cube is under the table. It took me the longest time to locate the source of this very peculiar whirring noise I kept hearing at 2:00 a.m. One night I was down there on my hands and knees, fiddling with the thin wire connecting the cube to my AT, with my ear all but touching the cube. At 2:00, cron runs the widgie that prunes log files; that funny little noise proved to be the cube's disk. So it possible to make a very quiet disk; wonder why more people don't do it? A Miniscribe in a 386 machine I used to use at work was also very quiet. -- Jess Anderson <> Madison Academic Computing Center <> University of Wisconsin Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson NeXTmail w/attachments: anderson@yak.macc.wisc.edu Bitnet: anderson@wiscmacc Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888
raymond@picasso.cs.unc.edu (Will Raymond) (06/10/91)
Thanks for the various responses. So far the consensus is that in
a home environment - the cubes 330 Meg. Maxtor is loud.
Yes, the OD is loud when it seeks - I should have said: with the OD, and
the new filter, the NeXT fan/OD makes appreciably more noise. I have tried
various
methods to 'quiet' the MaXtor - none have worked. Loud is relative though -
I live in the middle of the woods - no car noises - no neighbors - just the
crickets and me. In this environment the Maxtor is loud. At work, though, with
all the humming etc. - it prob. wouldn't be noticeable.
Will
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