[ltp] hdd noise

[Helen Borrie]

At 09:52 AM 29/11/2010, Pezhman Givy wrote:
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>> That makes no sense imho. I mean SSD might not be the only solution...
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>Buy a Hitachi drive. I use them since about 8 year, currently two HTS725050A9A364: No noise, no vibrations.
>I will have a look on SSDs in five years (again).

+1 to that.  I've always used Hitachi drives on my Thinkpads (2 X T42, both using PATA, 1 X T60, which has two SATA HDDs, one in the Ultrabay) and neither disk noise *nor* fan noise has ever been an issue. I do have one external Seagate (used occasionally) which *is* noisy. 

Re fan noise:  I make it a practice *always* to use Lapramps with all notebooks.  This means that, most of the time, even the system fan rests.

Helen