wchutt@monsanto.com (03/14/91)
I am have just purchased a new IIsi with the 40Mb drive. While this computer is
a joy to use the internal 40Mb drive is very noisy when it is just spinning.
The head movement is very quiet but the drive motor is quite loud.
The drive that was shipped with the system was so loud (I could hear it from
two rooms away in my home) I returned it to the dealer for to be replaced.
This second drive is less noisy but it is still quite loud.
The dealer says "all of these new slim drives are real noisy". But I can't
believe Apple would pick a device that is such a nuisance.
Do any IIsi users out there in net-land notice this problem?
What would be the most effective way to communicate this problem to Apple
directly?
||||disclaimer: these are my opinions alone||||smedley@.udel.edu (Trevor Smedley) (03/14/91)
In article <1991Mar13.194446.3083@monsanto.com>, wchutt@monsanto.com writes: |> The drive that was shipped with the system was so loud (I could hear it from |> two rooms away in my home) I returned it to the dealer for to be replaced. |> This second drive is less noisy but it is still quite loud. |> |> The dealer says "all of these new slim drives are real noisy". But I can't |> believe Apple would pick a device that is such a nuisance. When I received my IIsi 2/40 the drive that was in it was the quietest I have ever encountered. The sticker on it said Conner xxxx (where xxxx is some four digit number -- the same as the one which MacWorld said was extremely quiet.) A few months later this drive failed, and was replaced with a Quantum (I think). This is much louder -- but it works fine! So the dealer was lying when he said that all the slim drives are real noisy -- it may just be that all the slim drives that work are noisy :-) Trevor Smedley smedley@udel.edu