{"id":86,"date":"2008-02-03T11:43:15","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T19:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/?p=86"},"modified":"2008-04-08T22:58:24","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T06:58:24","slug":"hitachi-travelstar-7k200-25-7200rpm-verdict-obnoxiously-noisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2008\/02\/hitachi-travelstar-7k200-25-7200rpm-verdict-obnoxiously-noisy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitachi Travelstar 7K200 Verdict:  Obnoxiously Noisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The OEM drive in my MacBook was a Toshiba 60GB (MK6034GSX, 5400RPM, 8MB cache, 0.75W at idle).  This drive was quick and almost entirely silent, but my photos were quickly eating up the space.  So, in July 2007, I ordered a <a href=\"http:\/\/zipzoomfly.com\/jsp\/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10005818\">Hitachi Travelstar 200GB<\/a> hard drive (7K200, 7200RPM, 16MB cache) from <a href=\"http:\/\/zipzoomfly.com\/\">ZipZoomFly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the drive seemed great.  Boot-up time was substantially quicker.  Adobe Lightroom browsed and exported noticeably faster.  However, the honeymoon was over quickly.  I noticed that it made a <em>lot<\/em> of clicking noise.  Often, simply scrolling up or down a web page would cause several irritating clicks (and this is with 2GB RAM and no other apps running).<\/p>\n<p>After putting up with it for several months, I contacted Hitachi support.  They suggested using their Feature Tool to turn on sound management, which I couldn&#8217;t do because they don&#8217;t support the Intel Macs.  Based upon my description, the customer service rep recommended that I return the possibly defective drive.<\/p>\n<p>Within a week I was happily installing my shiny, new replacement.  Sadly, the feeling faded when I found that the new drive was as bad as, if not worse than, the first Hitachi drive.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, I realized that I could, in fact, run the Hitachi Feature Tool, since SATA is standard across both notebooks and desktops!  I moved the drive to my old desktop, booted the Feature Tool CD, and enabled sound management.<\/p>\n<p>The drive is now noticeably quieter, but still extremely annoying compared to the original Toshiba disk.  I would estimate that it clicks approximately half as often.<\/p>\n<p>I will be ordering a 200GB, 7200rpm Toshiba drive as soon as they&#8217;re in-stock, and retire this awful Hitachi disk for use in my HTPC in the living room.  Hopefully, I won&#8217;t notice the sound from across the room&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The OEM drive in my MacBook was a Toshiba 60GB (MK6034GSX, 5400RPM, 8MB cache, 0.75W at idle). This drive was quick and almost entirely silent, but my photos were quickly eating up the space. So, in July 2007, I ordered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2008\/02\/hitachi-travelstar-7k200-25-7200rpm-verdict-obnoxiously-noisy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[50,46,54,47,48,44,53,52,51,49,45],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-50","tag-7k200","tag-annoying","tag-hard-drive","tag-harddrive","tag-hitachi","tag-loud","tag-noise","tag-noisy","tag-notebook","tag-travelstar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}