Posted by: tfabris
SilentDrive enclosure? - 22/03/2002 17:03
Any chance that
this would work inside the casing of the HSX-109?
If not the consumer models, what about the plexiglass prototype I'm using?
How warm does the drive get in the HSX-109?
Posted by: rob
Re: SilentDrive enclosure? - 23/03/2002 11:40
Some of the prototypes and all of the production units have sound reducing mounts. I believe the production units also have drives which are spun up in "quiet mode" (or did I dream that??).
Rob
Posted by: mlord
Re: SilentDrive enclosure? - 02/04/2002 08:18
You probably were not dreaming.
Many IDE drives have the "acoustic" feature set, permitting trade offs to be made between access time and noise, with head dampening algorithms. (
Rob already knows that; this is for the benefit of others)
-ml
Posted by: drakino
Re: SilentDrive enclosure? - 02/04/2002 12:24
Now is that feature a set and forget type thing in the firmware, or does the driver have to set this every boot? I'm curious, because I have a media system in the front room, and being able to set this would be awesome. If it's a driver setting, I'm probably SOL since it's Windows 2000.
Posted by: robricc
Re: SilentDrive enclosure? - 02/04/2002 22:34
It is set with software provided by the manufacturer (usually runs in DOS or off a boot disk). Click below for links to Maxtor and IBM utilities.
Maxtor AMSET
IBM Feature Tool
Posted by: drakino
Re: SilentDrive enclosure? - 03/04/2002 08:34
I guess it's time for hard drive upgrades in my house, the media center is towards the bottom of the parts chain, and only has a 4gb Ultra 33 drive in it currently.
Thanks for the links though, they will be put to good use in the future.