new seagate barracuda 320g sata2

snarloas1982 · 12 Oct 2006 at 18:47

i just purchashed this drive, it seems rather noisey compared to 2 maxtor drives and a 7 series seagate i have. is everyone elses's like this? also is there anyway of checking if my drive is running in sata 2 mode?

snarloas1982 · 12 Oct 2006 at 19:46

downloaded hdtach and found it was running in sata1 mode, fixed that seems to be not as clunky but not perfect yet

The Running Man · 12 Oct 2006 at 20:02

could u post a pic of the graph? i would like to see

snowdog · 12 Oct 2006 at 21:56

Tbh, the seagates arent that silent, always when doing the seek test in hdtach my baracudda's 7.2k.10 are a lot noisier as my 2 or 3 years old wd caviar and my even older hitachi dekstar, it does tho make less noise as my maxtor diamondmax10plus.

smids · 13 Oct 2006 at 01:50

Mine is certainly quiet. Out of interest, is there a sticker on the base of the hard drive at the centre of where the platters would be - apparently the stickered ones are quieter than non-stickered (batch/revision change). Mine is really quiet - actually one of my quietest.

Seagates are quiet to the poster above - but this mainly stems from the IDE range which used to have Acoustic Management enabled by default (well, certainly on the .7 series which is whisper quiet). They have stopped this feature from appearing in later SeaTools and SATA drives are generally noisier from them than their IDE drives.

deadeyedic30 · 13 Oct 2006 at 12:31

GOt one of these myself and it's almost impossible to hear it running, and that was when i had it wired up to my external enclosure for formatting before putting it in the pc.

Neil79 · 14 Oct 2006 at 01:32

I cant hear it running at all.... My fans are more noisy

snarloas1982 · 14 Oct 2006 at 11:25

smids said:
Mine is certainly quiet. Out of interest, is there a sticker on the base of the hard drive at the centre of where the platters would be - apparently the stickered ones are quieter than non-stickered (batch/revision change). Mine is really quiet - actually one of my quietest.

Seagates are quiet to the poster above - but this mainly stems from the IDE range which used to have Acoustic Management enabled by default (well, certainly on the .7 series which is whisper quiet). They have stopped this feature from appearing in later SeaTools and SATA drives are generally noisier from them than their IDE drives.

yea mine hasnt got a sticker on it, its really quite annoying now hearing it reading all the time