I wanted to quickly follow-up on this: does anybody have any
recommendations for very quiet notebook drives?  My drive (an IBM
DJSA-210) has started generating a noticeable bit of noise.  Since
I was thinking about getting something with greater capacity...

On 2003.05.30 11:29:06 +1000, Luke Mewburn wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 01:24:09PM -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
>   | After going through the exercise of making my Athlon machine
>   | ultra-quiet I can impart a few tidbits.
>   | 
>   | 1) get a really quiet disk.  The Seagate Barracuda IV 80gigs are
>   |    quieter than any of the already quiet laptop disks I have in the
>   |    other machines.
> 
> I concur; I actually purchased some Barracuda V drives recently, and
> they're even quieter.

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