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Acoustic noise (seek) of Maxtor drives
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Posted by: BlankMan

I never could understand why people were always complaining about the seek noise of Maxtor drives and used amset to quiet them down.

That was then. This is now.

A month or two ago I had a 120G drive fail and I used dd_rescue to salvage it to another Maxtor 120G DiamondMAX Plus 9 7200 RPM drive I had laying around. When I installed it and booted the DTiVo man was that thing loud, seek wise. Constantly. At first I attributed it to the drive being replaced and maybe the DTiVo was doing some housekeeping due to the 236K of bad blocks reported during the dd_rescue operation. Nada. It continued. Forever to this day.

So I finally pulled it today and ran amset /check on it and it was set to PERFORMANCE. I set it to QUIET. Man what a difference. Now it's like the rest of the drives in my DTiVo's.

Then I stumbled on something. Each of my T60's has a 120G and a 160G drive in them. This past Thursday another 120G drive failed in another unit so I pulled it out today to fix it. Before starting dd_rescue I ran amset /check on it just to see. The 120G was set to PERFORMANCE the 160G was set to QUIET. I never set that 160G to anything, I never used amset before today, so that's the way that one came from the factory. So next time I have the drives out of any of the other T60's I'm going to see how those 160G's are set.

I just realized that I put that new 120G drive back in and didn't set it to QUIET. Have to see if I need too.

But now I know. In a quiet room that thing was annoying. It was hard to take a nap! :D