The best way to get an idea of the hard drive sound is to turn your computer on w/ the drives unplugged.

Or put your computer in "Stand By." At least that's how I tested to see how much noise was coming from my HDD.

Does it happen intermittently? Or does it happen the whole time you have it turned on?

I'm guessing people will say, "If your board can fit it, get the 120, else get the 90."

Hitachi's Feature Tool: http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm (Towards the bottom of the page.)

how about 3700amb...is it any better than sonata in terms of chassis resonation from hdd & od?

In my 3700AMB, vibration noise can be significant when the drive is screwed into the drive cage.

And it's amazing how quiet the drive is now. Case vibration is close to zilch. The door doesn't vibrate anymore. Seeks are much, much fainter. The way I differentiated what noise was caused by the hard drive was by putting the system in Standby, and seeing what noises go away. Now I can barely tell ...

excaliberpc.com - Just request one with a NIDEC motor in the comments section at checkout.

Has anyone had a similar experience? Yes. We recently got a USB2 scanner, Canon 3200F I believe. Plugging in the USB made CPU temps rise. 5C or better, I'd guess. Even though I wasn't scanning, and it isn't one of the scanners that's powered through USB. I don't run CPUIdle. Just running MBM5 and T...

Well I got Ghost 2003, and everything cloned fine. Only hiccups were: - Ghost told me I had to defragment before running. Since my C: was low on space, windows defrag wasn't able to defrag enough until I got rid of my Restore Points. After that, windows defrag worked, and Ghost was able to proceed. ...

Wow, my reading retention must be really bad.

Now I just have to pick up a copy of Ghost 03 / NSW04. I should have had this figured out before the drive came.

Thanks again.

Very nice. Thanks for the explanation. If you'll permit me one last question: Does that also mean the partition sizes are cloned exactly? My C: is 20GB, and nearly full. D: has lots of space. And there's about 8GB of free space on the end of the drive that used to have Linux on it. Were I manually p...

Thanks for the info. So this would be Ghost 2003 and above? (Well, looked like the next version wasn't out yet on Symantec's site.) So I would put in Samsung as slave, partition/format it, use Ghost to clone the WD to the Samsung. Take out the WD (or set to slave), and set the Samsung as Master. So ...

I had kinda wondered if the case temp was "accurate" or not, with the thermistor is located where it is on the board. And I could open up the case, and the case temp wouldn't drop.

Got my SP1614N today (NIDEC FDB by request from excaliberpc), along with an external 3.5" USB2 enclosure. My current WD is 2 NTFS partitions, C: with Windows & Programs, D: with My Documents (all my data). Gonna replace my WD w/ the Samsung, and put the WD in the enclosure for backup/etc. I was thin...

I love explodingdog.

Here is my current desktop. A little fuzzy because it had to be JPG-ed.

Ah, well that's good to know. :) I was just wondering, since so many people's case temps never seem to break 30 or so. But I'm about stable as anything at current settings, so I guess I don't have anything to worry about. The HDD is, surprisingly, the most temperature sensitive part of the machine. ...

Are mid-30s to 40C case temps going to hurt any of my components? Are these temps abnormally high? When I'm on my PC in the evenings lately: - Idle: CPU mid-40s, Case 36-37C - Load (well, right after exiting FFXI): CPU 50-52C, Case 40C My room temp is about 77F/25C currently. My specs should be in m...

http://news.com.com/Intel+debuts+low-power+Pentium+Ms/2100-1006_3-5276873.html?tag=nefd.pop Apologies if this has already been posted, but I hadn't seen anything on these new lower powered Dothans yet. Although the new processors don't run as fast as other Dothans--the Pentium M 755 runs at 2GHz, f...

I got the same noise with a new Gateway machine at work, Maxtor hard drive. Mouse movement, especially when resizing a window, and scrolling seemed to do it. Didn't matter if the speakers were on or off, so figured it wasn't the sound card / speakers. I searched around some forums, Google, and usene...

This was just the thread I was looking for. :o I'd just replaced the 92-mm fan in my PIII 800 Dell w/ a nice quiet Zalman, and was considering replacing the noisy hard drive (WD200BB I believe) with a 40 or 60 GB Seagate. Maybe use it as a Linux system. But I was going to ask if it's good for a new ...

Check your motherboard documentation (or see if the board has the pins marked clear enough) to see where you plug one of them into the board.

May have to try both to get the right one, if you care which LED gets lit up, as I believe the HDD LED cords aren't really marked I, II, III.

I replaced the stock Antec fan with the same Enermax adjustable 120mm. (Have two of them now, but only using one at present.) With case fan grills still in place, and the fans not undervolted (yet turned all the way down using the Enermax dial), they are still rather loud. Even just running one in o...

Hmm. Reseating the heatsink must've helped, or maybe my room's cooler. Still running w/o intake/exhaust, and I'm only 50-52C when I exit out of FFXI.
I was in this same range before when I was using the exhaust fan on 12V as well.
My case temp is 39C. I suppose my HDD is running pretty hot...

Maybe something to this effect?:
http://hem.passagen.se/zatan/shh.gif
Just found looking around Google Images.

Working with my system some today. Got that Zalman northbridge heatsink finally installed. Reinstalled the CPU, HS, Fan. Realized that, even though those grills are adding to noise (still haven't cut em out), the Enermax 120s I've got are still rather noisy by themselves. So apparently I need to get...

This Fall I purchased a Benq FP767 17" LCD (the black version), and I'm quite pleased with it. It has a 16ms response time, 260 brightness, 500:1 contrast. Native resolution 1280x1024, max refresh @ 75 Hz. Priced under $400. (I don't see the exact same model being sold anymore, but I assume they hav...