HDD Noise Reduction

rctneil

rctneil

rctneil

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Hello,
I just got a warning from Vista that it has detected that my HDD is not very well so I installed an application called HDD Health and it showed that my windows drive was 100% healthy but my data drive was at 19% health so I started a backup and went downstairs for 2 minutes. When I returned, the drives health had diminished to 1% (which it still is at) so at this point I used a different PC to purchase a replacement - (Western Digital Caviar 500Gb Sata2) and as I was reading the reviews someone mentioned something generally which he said could be used on all HDD's called Acoustic Management. So I researched this and I Found out that Hitachi have a bootable app whcih allows you to change how loud a HDD runs (any make of drive) and it has a minimal performance hit. I was wondering how much of a benefit it would make on my Western Digital Raptor X 10,000 rpm drive?

I might try it tommorow once my new drive has arrived and is installed and everyhing back to normal.

Thanks

Regards,
Neil
 
you don't buy a raptor just to make it slower ;)

IIRC, the acoustic management on a raptor is set to balanced by default. You could probably improve seek times slightly by setting AM to performance, but setting it to Quiet would kind of negate the point to getting a raptor ;)
 
Only the seek noise will be lower slightly, it does not help against idle noise and vibrations.

A bungie mod is the best thing to do by far, it will reduce the vibration hum a lot.
 
I used to have my Raptors in that Zalman heatpipe cooler. It's brilliant for noise - I can't hear the drives at all. However it's ability to cool is rubbish and I've ended up taking them out to fit a fan instead.
 
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