IBM Deskstar, with the ibmfirmwaremode "silent".

You can download an utility from ibm's site witch can set the harddrive to
a somewhat slower but really quieter mode.



On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, André FAURE wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:10:05 -0700
> Jamie Heilman <jamie@audible.transient.net> wrote:
>
> > > 6) Has anybody experiences with making the Qube more
> > > quite? At the moment mine is very loud.
> >
> > I cut away the fan guard on my qube2 (its just stamped out of the
> > case) to open up the air flow a bit and hopefully lower the resonant
> > frequency.  Did it work?  I have no idea, too much other noisy shit in
> > the same room. <g>  In theory it should though, so I suppose its
> > something to think about if you figure out the noise is the fan's
> > fault.
> >
>
> I replaced the fan with a 4cm titan fan which i power at 7v using
> a Y-cable between the motherboard and the HDD.
> A lot quieter and still as cool (maybe cooler?)
> if only i could find a silent HDD. but seagate's baracuda IV/V are
> hard to find lately.
> anyone has a recommandation on HDD choice? 30G is plenty enough.
>

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