"Paul Hopwood" wrote in message
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Even on the most aggressive acoustic setting I've found Maxtors to be
considerably noisier than most other drives. In fact the swapping it
from one extreme to other doesn't seem to make all that much
difference to noise on any of the DiamondMax drives I've tried.

This is strange. Since using Maxtors acoustics utility, my Plus9 120Gb is
silent. At all times.