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NoiseSaver is a life saver!
Posted on 29-Aug-2017 21:11:23
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I've got a squeaky 10,000 rpm SCSI drive that moves to cool itself every 20 seconds or so which is a bit maddening! I discovered NoiseSaver on Aminet that spins it down when idle! Great!

Can be found HERE

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Posted on 30-Aug-2017 13:37:51
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@Thread

It sounds like a jet engine when it spins down! No wonder these things get hot and have to move the hard drive head every so often. It would probably melt otherwise!

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Re: NoiseSaver is a life saver!
Posted on 30-Aug-2017 17:16:27
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yup been using if for a while in my 1200T which used to have 2 scsi drives but now there's only one..lot less whining & still acts like a mini heater (great for winter months )

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Re: NoiseSaver is a life saver!
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@BigD

How old is it? One of the things I've noticed is that some of the later 15k drives actually run a lot cooler and quieter than older 10k ones.

Of course, swapping it out for an SSD would be quieter still

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It's new old stock and a 68 pin drive with a 68 pin to 50 pin adapter. It did this squeaky noise thing from the get go but has a warranty so not particularly bothered. Probably 2005/2006 tech from memory.

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Ah, that's not too bad, then - there are some very early 2000s disks that SGI used to ship with their workstations. Those drives are insanely loud.

BTW: The ones I have here are 2009/2010 NOS, Fujitsu 15k ones. Apart from a little noise on startup, you don't really know they're there.

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Yeah, I lucked out there Even worse I installed it the night before my birthday and had a massive nose bleed after I carried the big box miggy upstairs (I was recovering from a nose op at the time)! Spent my birthday in hospital and needed my nose cauterised!

I've just had to reinstall my OS3.9 partition as it was a severely corrupted FFS partition that DiskSalv wasn't repairing. Rejigged everything and the loud IBM now has the primary boot partition on it. It may mean it has less idling and will squeak less as it'll be in more use! That's the logic anyway. It's very fast and has decreased boot time

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Amigas cry out to be be tweaked in a way that is unheard of in the Windows PC world. Everyone's afraid of messing up PCs because they are hard to understand at a low level. Everything is so accessible with an Amiga that it just isn't scary to mess with partitions, User Startup scripts etc I suppose Linux users are similar.

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Oh, nasty way to spend a birthday! I can't help but think everything would've smelled like BBQ for a few days after, too.

If the drive has sat idle for a while, running it in more will probably do it some good; I've had a few drives 'loosen up' a bit as they've gotten a few hours on them. I remember digging out an Indigo2 with a full-height Seagate Barracuda in it that had stuck; when I powered it on for the first time the drive literally honked at me like a goose until I freed it up.

The Amiga is in many ways a triumph of presenting logical, sensible things to the user, and then getting out of the user's way. I could tell you how Workbench, Linux, pretty much anything not Windows boots no problem... and for each I could probably take the required files and put them in the right places on the disk by hand to get a minimally working system.

But nothing beats the Amiga in terms of how easy that would be. Windows seems so tied up with other bits of itself I imagine it'd be impossible now. Maybe back with win 3.11 or 95 you could do it. But not now.

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