[ltp] Re: Re: New hard disk for X31?

[Michael]

Just as a follow up: I now have a Seagate Momentus 5400.3 80GB (with only
one disc inside!) and I am very happy with it. It is nearly inaudible.
There is only some kind of quiet "white noise" but no high frequency
spinning noise. Also no vibrations (those ones that nearly drove me crazy
with the Toshiba ;-).

And it's also quite fast:

> hdparm -T /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 Timing cached reads:   1360 MB in  2.00 seconds = 680.43 MB/sec

> hdparm -t /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 Timing buffered disk reads:  132 MB in  3.05 seconds =  43.34 MB/sec

Thanks for all your help.

Cheers,

Michael


Donald B. Altman wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> A follow-up on my earlier posting...
> 
> I've now installed and used the 100G Hitachi drive.  The sound level, from
> all
> that I can hear, is the same as the 60G drive that was OEM on my T42p. 
> While I can hear disk access, it's not loud, and it's unperceptible in my
> office with the typical ambient noise of a few cooling fans on various
> printers, etc.
> 
> If anything, access seems faster than the older drive.  I don't know if
> that's because it's a higher data density or that I upgraded my OS (Suse
> 9.3 to 10.1). There's a significant speed-up in my slower apps, one of
> which is a large Java program.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Don A
> 
> ** Reply to message from Michael <auslands-kv@gmx.de> on Fri, 09 Jun 2006
> 20:46:47 +0200
> 
>> Hi Michael,
> 
>> I have a T42p.  Just today I took delivery of a Hitachi 7K100 100GB 7200
>> RPM drive. Once I install it, I can send you my impressions of the sound
>> level compared with my current 60G disk.
> 
>> If the manufacturer slipstreams ECOs into their manufacturing, you might
>> find that your experience with the drive is based upon the date or
>> location of manufacture, too.
> 
>> Good luck,
> 
>> Don A
>