[vdr] Re: Choosing harddisk (5400 or 7200rpms?)

[Guido Fiala <gfiala@s.netic.de>]

On Wednesday 19 November 2003 17:13, you wrote:
> > arne.richter@gmx.net wrote:
> > >SV1604N, 5400 RPM, 2.6bel Idle, 2.7bel Read/Write. Uses 5.5W idle, 7.0W
> > >seek.
> > >SP1604N, 7200 RMP, 2.7bel Idel, 2.8bel Read/Write. Uses 7.0W idle, 8.6W
> > >seek.
> >
> > Are these values valid if you set the acoustic level with IBM's feature
> > tool to low noise ? I don't think so.
>
> Hmmm...good question, I never tried to see if IBMs tool even worked with
> SAMSUNGs disks. Might be worth trying out...

At least Samsung supports also 2 modes: silent and fast

But you can try yourself - as for the SV1604N - you need to place your ear 
_directly_ on it's case (while it _is_ mounted to the PC-case) to hear 
anything at all even in fast mode (44MB/sec here).



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