Does anyone know if Western Digital offers acoustic management software for its drives? I have a WD1200JB, makes a little bit of noise, wanted to see if I could tweak it into silence.
Thanks
Pete
Does WD have acoustic management software for its drives?
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I'm pretty sure that Western Digital's Data Lifeguard toolset includes this functionality. (I was using it just a day or two ago for a different purpose.)
http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp
And I also recall IBM's Feature Tool being able to set acoustic settings on non-IBM hard drives, although maybe that's changed since I've last used it. IBM sold their hard drive unit to Hitachi, so there's a new download page for it.
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm
For the record, what using these tools will do is lower the head seek noise, but they won't do anything about rotational noise.
http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp
And I also recall IBM's Feature Tool being able to set acoustic settings on non-IBM hard drives, although maybe that's changed since I've last used it. IBM sold their hard drive unit to Hitachi, so there's a new download page for it.
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm
For the record, what using these tools will do is lower the head seek noise, but they won't do anything about rotational noise.