From popserver Fri May 4 07:16:22 GMT 1995 Received: from garcon.cso.uiuc.edu by sparc0a.cs.uiuc.edu with SMTP id AA12967 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Tue, 2 May 1995 21:22:32 -0500 Received: by garcon.cso.uiuc.edu id AA09397 (5.67a8+/IDA-1.5 for roth@csil.cs.uiuc.edu); Tue, 2 May 1995 21:23:30 -0500 Received: from mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu by garcon.cso.uiuc.edu with SMTP id AA09393 (5.67a8+/IDA-1.5 for ); Tue, 2 May 1995 21:23:26 -0500 Received: by mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (NX5.67d/NeXT-1.0) id AA11106; Tue, 2 May 95 21:22:21 -0500 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 2 May 95 21:22:21 -0500 X-Ph: V3.17@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu From: stuckey@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Anthony J. Stuckey) Message-Id: <9505030222.AA11106@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu> To: roth@uiuc.edu Subject: [comp.sys.mac.hardware] Re: Why are hard drives so noisy? X-Charset: LATIN1 X-Char-Esc: 29 Content-Type: text Content-Length: 2894 Status: RO >Path: vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!hudson.lm.com!news.ysu.edu!not-for-mail >From: laa05781@daisy.egr.uh.edu (Louis A Alten) >Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet >Subject: [comp.sys.mac.hardware] Re: Why are hard drives so noisy? >Followup-To: alt.humor.best-of-usenet.d >Date: 2 May 1995 11:58:40 -0400 >Organization: best of usenet humor >Lines: 41 >Sender: doug@cc.ysu.edu >Approved: ahbou-mod@acpub.duke.edu >Message-ID: <3o5krg$q6c@unix1.cc.ysu.edu> >NNTP-Posting-Host: unix1.cc.ysu.edu >X-Disclaimer: the "Approved" header verifies header information for article transmission and does not imply approval of content. See .sig below. >X-Submissions-To: ahbou-sub@acpub.duke.edu From: Nat Lanza Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Why are hard drives so noisy? Cephalogen writes: >Does anyone knows why new drives are so noisy? >I saw (listened) my friend LC575 with a 2Gig Quantum and there's a night >and day difference between it and my 40 meg (Quantum)... > >So is there a real reason to this? or is it just that Quantum decided to >become cheaper and noisier? Well, basically, it's due to the drive size. You see, the 2-gig drive is huge, and don't think it doesn't know that. The little 'ol 40-meg drive is tiny by todays standards, and is accordingly meek. It probably doesn't think all that much of itself, and is afraid to speak up and be heard. The 2-gig, on the other hand, is frankly quite narcissistic and wants everyone to pay attention to it. As a result, you'll have to spend a lot of time litsening to it boast. As an aside, the whole noise business makes a lot more sense when you learn the language of hard drives. Get yourself a good technical manual, sit down, and read it cover to cover. You'll discover all the nuances of drivespeak, >from inflection to intonation. Unfotunately, you'll also discover that most drives spend most of their time bragging about seek speed. It's kind of boring, really. By the way, some insist (rather dully, I'm afraid...) that the excess drive noise is not due at all to braggadocio but rather to the fact that a larger drive probably needs a bigger and thus louder cooling fan. They're totally wrong, not to mention unimaginative, but it's a decent enough attempt at a mechanical explanation. --Nat, the anthropomorphic -- Moderators accept or reject articles based solely on the criteria posted in the Frequently Asked Questions. Article content is the responsibility of the submittor. Submit articles to ahbou-sub@acpub.duke.edu. To write to the moderators, send mail to ahbou-mod@acpub.duke.edu. -- Anthony J. Stuckey stuckey@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu "And if you frisbee-throw a universe where does it go?" -- Steve Blunt. GCS/S -d+@ p c(++) l u+ e+(-) m+(*) s+++/-- !n h(*) f+ g+ w+ t+@ r y? KiboNumber == 1