Yes, that works! Thanks!

Now, I'm getting what I paid for 12.4ms seek and 101.6MB/s avg. read in HDTach.

- Nick

Thanks guys! I've used Hitachi Tool (DOS) to disable it. But, it didn't make much difference, access time dropped from 16.3 to 15.4, I'm still far away from what reviewed model shows :( Are there many different versions of this drive, some of them with slower access time (and probably quieter)? I ca...

Does anyone know of a tool to disable acoustic management?

I've received this WD drive with acoustic management enabled, so my seek times are around 16ms. I won't mind some more seek noise

- Nick