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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Barracuda SATA Drive
From:       Bob Johnson <livewire () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2003-05-26 2:55:45
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Just purchased this drive today with a siig controller. I have to manually 
hdparm -X69 -d1 -c1 /dev/hde , it has decent performance.
As far as noise.. mines laying on the desk with power and ide cable running to 
it. Cant hear it at ALL.

					Bob

On Sunday 25 May 2003 07:46 pm, Jason Tedesco wrote:
> This is probably a bit off-topic for this forum although I have seen other
> posts on HDD matters.
>
> I have recently purchased a Seagate barracuda V SATA drive.  I have bought
> this drive for performance, although have found it to be a lot slower than
> my old IDE drive (just judging this from my day to day use). The drive is
> very loud when loading even simple things like the windows control panel. 
> It crunches and grinds away like if the drive is about to grind into hell. 
> I have defragged the drive and still have the same results.
>
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