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Originally Posted by trodas
Drive(s) in question - Seagate PATA 200G ST3200822A ones.
Number of them - There.
Description of problem - in folding machines, they are mostly idle. Yet each about 45sec or something a self check (or something like this INTO the drive, no IDE activity shown) is started. This generate click noise and such sounds like HDD activity and it is extremely annoying. I did not want to hear these clicks. Otherwise I'm happy with the drives, but I just want this to STOP. Either stop, or return the drive any get another brand that won't click when idle. VERY annoying. Is there a way to make this STOP forever, or one just should not buy any Seagate drivers?
Anyone?
Affected machines - Any. It simply did not matter on what machine they run, it is always the same. Noise, clicks, noise, clicks...
Thanks for letting me know. I just got there these ST3200822A drives, so I either found a solution or return them - Maxtor's did not do such noise, maybe I should just not went to Seagate... Or is there a new firmware or utility available to STOP THIS...?
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this is their diagnostic software...
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/
iirc Seagate ceased to offer acoustic management on their drives as part of their settlement of a patent infringement lawsuit.... possibly some 3rd party apps may do the job? or a firmware
downgrade....
i recently aquired (second hand from ebay) one of the Samsung SP1614N compared to the seagates here....
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article152-page1.html
even before i set acoustic management on it to quiet (it had been set for speed) i found it completely indetectible even just sitting loose on a cardboard box (which since it was for upgrading the disk in a PVR i was pretty pleased about...
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