From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Wed Oct 07 1998 - 00:50:27 EDT
There are variations in the noise level and type of noise (or lack of noise) in
even the same HDD from the same box....
these noises range from 'gurgling' to klunking(normal) to whistling..
Michael Geary wrote:
> > From: Gerald C. Delsescaux [mailto:jd_at_eighthwave.com]
> >
> > The ThinkPad (600) is a 2645-51U, dated 08/98 on the case, I believe. The
> > drive was the standard one that IBM includes: a 4gig Hitachi
> > model DK227A-41
> > (Cyl 7944 Heads 16, Sec 63).
>
> Following up late on this one... I think each kind of hard drive has its own
> characteristic sounds. My 2645-51U doesn't make the kind of "thonk" sounds
> you describe, but it had an IBM 4Gb drive in it (and now has an IBM 6.4Gb).
> OTOH, my Libretto 50 *does* make sounds something like you describe, and it
> has a Hitachi DK237A-32 drive that I installed in it. That drive's been
> running reliably for several months now.
>
> So if anyone said, "My ThinkPad 600 doesn't sound like yours", well, it may
> just be because of a different model of drive.
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