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To: Starlight who wrote (13003)	7/18/2000 12:50:09 AM
From: Craig Freeman	of 60323

Elizabeth, speaking of "quiet" hard drives, I recently installed a 45GB, 7200 RPM, IBM drive in my PC. While I copied ~8GB of data from my old drive, I repeatedly put my ear to the new drive because it appeared to be "dead". It turned out that it was alive and well ... and VERY quiet. Only warm to the touch after a full hour of constant writing, the drive is a total screamer. It boots noticeably faster, clocks in at ~30MBS using hand-coded software (loading 1MB blocks), and beats 15MBS with Sandra. Those numbers are several times faster than my old 10GB drive. It's hard to believe that a new disk drive can make a significant difference in the performance of a PIII/450, 128MB PC. But it does. Craig PS According to others, the 60 and 75MB versions run hotter and louder.

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