Maxtor Maxline Plus II 250GB, WOW

"Michael Rodgers" wrote in message
"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.

It was probably set to selfdestruct at warranty end. ;-)

"Michael Rodgers" wrote:

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.

I guess either we have a different definition of "silent", you've got
a particularly quite example or my hearing is better than yours? ;-))


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Paul Hopwood wrote:

"Michael Rodgers" wrote:

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.

I guess either we have a different definition of "silent", you've got
a particularly quite example or my hearing is better than yours? ;-))



Of course the accoustics of the case will affect this - quite
significantly in some cases (no pun intended).

Parish