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Maxtor Maxline Plus II 250GB, WOW
I have many Hard drives. A few WD JB's, alot of Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8MB
cache drives of all sizes for video storage. I recently got one of the Maxtor Maxline Plus II 250GB 7200rpm 8MB cache drives http://tinyurl.com/3cref . I figured it would be similiar to the Diamond Max drives, just larger. I was wrong. I haven't done any benchmarks to test speed or anything like that, but what strikes me about this drive is that it makes no noise whatsoever!!! The DiamondMax Plus drives are find idle but become very noisy when reading/writing(scratchy, scratchy, seek seek and do get on ones nerves after a while. I hooked up my DiamondMax 200GB drive and the Maxline 250GB drive, both 8MB cache 7200rpm in the to my machine and just did some open air tests reading and writing on both. It's amazing that one drive can be so much liuder than the other. Performing the exact same transfer the Maxline drive hardly made a sound, I had to check if it was actually working and that I wasn't copying to another drive. And I had it about 1 foot away from me. I've just built my new system this week around a Diamond Max 200GB drive, I'm now wishing I'd have installed XP on the Maxline. Anyone else have one of these drives? |
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"luke" wrote in message
... [snip] I haven't done any benchmarks to test speed or anything like that, but what strikes me about this drive is that it makes no noise whatsoever!!! [I compared it to a Maxtor DiamondMax and] It's amazing that one drive can be so much liuder than the other. Performing the exact same transfer the Maxline drive hardly made a sound, I had to check if it was actually working and that I wasn't copying to another drive. Some people (like me) consider access noise to be an advantage for just this reason . Alex |
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did they both have the same acoustic management settings
enabled/disabled? luke wrote: I have many Hard drives. A few WD JB's, alot of Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8MB cache drives of all sizes for video storage. I recently got one of the Maxtor Maxline Plus II 250GB 7200rpm 8MB cache drives http://tinyurl.com/3cref . I figured it would be similiar to the Diamond Max drives, just larger. I was wrong. I haven't done any benchmarks to test speed or anything like that, but what strikes me about this drive is that it makes no noise whatsoever!!! The DiamondMax Plus drives are find idle but become very noisy when reading/writing(scratchy, scratchy, seek seek and do get on ones nerves after a while. I hooked up my DiamondMax 200GB drive and the Maxline 250GB drive, both 8MB cache 7200rpm in the to my machine and just did some open air tests reading and writing on both. It's amazing that one drive can be so much liuder than the other. Performing the exact same transfer the Maxline drive hardly made a sound, I had to check if it was actually working and that I wasn't copying to another drive. And I had it about 1 foot away from me. I've just built my new system this week around a Diamond Max 200GB drive, I'm now wishing I'd have installed XP on the Maxline. Anyone else have one of these drives? |
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"Markeau" wrote in message
... did they both have the same acoustic management settings enabled/disabled? They're both at their default values. |
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shawn wrote:
Okay, but are those settings the same? It may be that the new drive defaults to the quiet setting which will make quite a difference in how loud the drive sounds during access. If you haven't already you should look on Maxtor's site for a utility to check/set the acoustic settings and verify you are comparing two drives with the exact same settings. 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. I've yet to try a Maxline but if the difference is as severe as the OP suggests it would indicate a more serious improvement than that gained through changing acoustic management settings. -- iv Paul iv |
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"shawn" wrote in message
... "luke" wrote: Okay, but are those settings the same? It may be that the new drive defaults to the quiet setting which will make quite a difference in how loud the drive sounds during access. If you haven't already you should look on Maxtor's site for a utility to check/set the acoustic settings and verify you are comparing two drives with the exact same settings. I check the Maxline using Amset using AMSET /check and it read "acoutstic management on, current mode: performance" I didn't even realise "performance" was an option? I thought it was just off/fast/quiet? |
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luke wrote:
I check the Maxline using Amset using AMSET /check and it read "acoutstic management on, current mode: performance" I didn't even realise "performance" was an option? I thought it was just off/fast/quiet? Using Intel Application Accelerator my Maxtor's show 3 Acoustic Management options: o Disabled o Maximum Performance o Minimum Acoustic Output .... so presumably your MaxLine can be set to be even quieter LOL |
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On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 17:32:18 +0100, "luke"
wrote: I have many Hard drives. A few WD JB's, alot of Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8MB cache drives of all sizes for video storage. I recently got one of the Maxtor Maxline Plus II 250GB 7200rpm 8MB cache drives http://tinyurl.com/3cref . I figured it would be similiar to the Diamond Max drives, just larger. I was wrong. I haven't done any benchmarks to test speed or anything like that, but what strikes me about this drive is that it makes no noise whatsoever!!! The DiamondMax Plus drives are find idle but become very noisy when reading/writing(scratchy, scratchy, seek seek and do get on ones nerves after a while. I hooked up my DiamondMax 200GB drive and the Maxline 250GB drive, both 8MB cache 7200rpm in the to my machine and just did some open air tests reading and writing on both. It's amazing that one drive can be so much liuder than the other. Performing the exact same transfer the Maxline drive hardly made a sound, I had to check if it was actually working and that I wasn't copying to another drive. And I had it about 1 foot away from me. I've just built my new system this week around a Diamond Max 200GB drive, I'm now wishing I'd have installed XP on the Maxline. Anyone else have one of these drives? Just got a 160GB don't know if it's that line though. NTFS is even quieter yet! _________________________ French Connection: http://www.metrospy.com/boycott_brands.htm |
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"M@rtin" wrote in message ... "luke" wrote in news:cavs70$dhi$1 @newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk: I check the Maxline using Amset using AMSET /check and it read "acoutstic management on, current mode: performance" I didn't even realise "performance" was an option? I thought it was just off/fast/quiet? If you use the Hitachi Feature Tool then you can set the AAM on a scale between silence and performance - it's much better than the standard Maxtor tool and eliminates that loud seek noise on the Plus9s. What other drives does the Hitachi Feature Tool work on? -- Doug Ramage [watch spam trap] |
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"Paul Hopwood" wrote in message
... 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. |
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