[vdr] Re: silent hdd

["Jake Wegman" <jake@the-computer.org>]

...just sharing the wealth on hard drives...

Maxtor had a utility that will slow the drive down in favor of silencing the
drive.  I had encountered it while working with a 46GB model.  The tool was
model specific.

Also regarding warranties - Maxtor, Western Digital, and Seagate have ALL
lowered the standard warranties (from 3 years) to 1 year (which took effect
last month October 1st).  (as I've found so far, only Western Digital offers
an additional 2 years for $19(US) per drive).  Details can be found on all
three respective web sites under the sections that state the warranties in
question.  No longer are hard drive manufacturers offering standard 3 year
warranties.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Portz" <Andreas.Portz@gmx.de>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 3:47 AM
Subject: [vdr] Re: silent hdd


> Marco Hentschel wrote:
>
> > maxtor isn't realy silent. Try WD, they are relayable, very silent and
> > you get a longer warenty. If you run your mashine like me 24x7 than you
> > should take a hd with much warenty.
>
> My Maxtor with 5400rpm/120GB its _very_ silent, you can't hear it in a
normal closed case
> without any noise reduction addons. It keeps really cold during action,
has 3 years
> warranty and I got it on ebay for an affordable price, cheaper than the
best prices on
> geizhals.at.
>
>
>
>   -Andreas
>
> --
> Disclaimer - These opiini^H^H damn! ^H^H ^Q ^[ .. :w :q :wq :wq! ^d X^?
> exit X Q ^C ^c ^? :quitbye  CtrlAltDel  ~~q :~q logout save/quit :!QUIT
> ^[zz ^[ZZZZZZ ^H  man vi ^@ ^L ^[c ^# ^E ^X ^I ^T ? help helpquit ^D ^d
> man help ^C exit ?Quit ?q CtrlShftDel "Hey, what does this button d..."
>
>
>
>
> --
> Info:
> To unsubscribe send a mail to listar@linuxtv.org with "unsubscribe vdr" as
subject.



-- 
Info:
To unsubscribe send a mail to listar@linuxtv.org with "unsubscribe vdr" as subject.