Noisy Hard drive

[DanGrease]

I've been using my new computer for a while now.
It includes a Maxtor hard drive, 160GB (7200RPM, 8MB Cache)
I've been noticing that this hard drive is pretty noisy.
When I have the fan speeds set to low I can hear it pretty well.
It makes the usual tic sord of noise that every hard drive does.
The thing is, I thought this hard drive was suppose to be silent.
I bought it because I heard Maxtor hard drives are great.
I don't have any problems with it what so ever, it performs well.
Except that its pretty loud for a modern hard drive in my opinion.
Compared to my older Samsung hard drives, it is actually loud.
Is this normal for this hard drive? Are Maxtor hard drives loud?
Any information, comments, opinions are appreciated. Thanks

dan

[peterwilkes]

I have a maxtor drive and the seek noise is very loud and annoying. If you have a PATA (not SATA) drive, you may be able to enable the acoustic management on the drive and it may make it a bit quiteter.

What is the model of the drive?

I have a SATA drive and I cant access the drive from a boot disk (no SATA controler drivers)

[DanGrease]

Its an ATA hard drive.
Model: Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9

dan

[osprey4]

Dan: Is it that clunking noise while it's reading data? I've found Maxtors are famous for this.

[DanGrease]

Exactly. When its working it does those tic sounds.
I do believe its just the hard drive, and there is no issue with it.
I can live with it, but I found it to be irritating and annoying sometimes.
I just thought it would be silent since many people recommend Maxtor hard drives.

dan

[peterwilkes]

Dan , your drive DOES support acoustic management

Download the the attached zip file and follow the inscructions very carefully, this is a DOS based program and needs a boot disk.

Let us know if this has improved the noise levels.

[DanGrease]

Thank you! I will try it out later today and see if it works.

dan