On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Thomas Michael Wanka wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 15 Jul 2002 at 11:04, Jack Lloyd wrote:
> > I haven't been able to find anything on how to do it (and I can't just
> > turn of the disk because there's only one). My problem isn't heat (my
> > SS5 ran for over a year perfectly solid), but noise. The single SCA
> > disk in there is louder than the whole of my Athlon (which has 3 or 4
> > large fans, two hard drives, etc). I finally turned it off because,
> > even stuck in my closet, the racket was driving me nuts.
>
> I guess that depends on the disks. Most of the disks I use are
> comparable silent. I use several IBM SCSI drives and they can
> hardly be heard, even in a powermac (that is one of the most
> quiet machines I have). Then I have several Seagate Barracudas
> (ST15150w) that are real screamers, and like the IBM drives
> they are 7200 U/min disks.

Mine is also a Seagate.

Oho! It seems the SS5 drive sleds are cheaper than I had though, there are
a few on ebay for ~$10. Perhaps I will just pull the Seagate and throw it
off the roof or something, replace it with a pair of quieter drives.