Mine is quiet, but you can get a noisy drive in any brand, that still
works and still meets warranty requirements... Only certain noisy drives
have a higher risk of failure... 15 percent will be super quiet, 15
percent will be super noisy... But in my experience, both the Samsung
and Travelstar will be too quiet to hear.
Ray
Victoria Lamburn wrote:
> Hiya,
>
> (i must set OE to Plain text by default, doing my head in changing it all
> the time, or I could just download Thunderbird which I much prefer)
>
> Anyway. :) I have finally paid for an SXGA+ T23 (2647-9LU), perhaps a bit
> more than one would wish to ($900) but with the promise of it being in brand
> new condition being refurbished, and a 30 day money back guarantee or
> exchange if its not right, it all seemed good. (bar the paltry 128meg by
> default, I'm sure the 1gig I have in this T23 will rectify that)
>
> Anyway the question; with the 9LU is a 48gig 5400rpm Travelstar disk with
> 2MB cache memory. In this T23, a 4MG I have recently installed a 40gig
> 5400rpm Samsung (quiet, very quiet, cannot even hear it) with 8mb cache.
>
> Question is - this 9LU has a whole 8gig extra (before formatting etc.) over
> the one in my 4MG presently; however - is the 48gig Travelstar drive in this
> T23
>
> - known to work silently or near to silence
> - which will be faster, i'm inclined to think obviously the samsung with 4 x
> the cache. (although the more cache you have the slower it can get, this i
> believe is more related to the L1/L2/L3 cache issues in CPUs)
>
> Also, if I decide the Samsung disk will be a better bet, given the T23 9LU
> will have the same IDE controller; do I need to do that registry hack
> (whatever that is) to get the disk to boot properly without a stop error
> from XP - or will it boot straight off without a problem?
>
> Cheers!
> Vicky
>
>
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