At 18:03 Uhr +0100 15.1.2001, Brian Hechinger wrote:
>salvage@plethora.net drunkenly mumbled...
>> They're loud.  At least the ones I've used have been fairly
>> loud.  Generally, the tape will go in with a solid THUNK,
>> and the drive will probe it about two seconds later, with
>> a loud whirr WHIRR whirr.
>
>i had to close the door to my computer "room" because cron would fire off a
>backup job at 5am and the QIC-150 would WAKE ME UP IT WAS SO LOUD!

=8)

>maybe mine was extra special loud, but every QIC i've ever used has been
>extremely annoyingly loud.

The later models (at least the Tandberg ones) run more quiet than the
earlier ones. There is a significant noise difference between my home-site
TDC4222/SLR4 and the SLR5 we use at work.

	hauke

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