I've read a lot of pissing and moaning on this board about the noisy clicking ("It's driving me up the wall!") of the Hitachi 60GB 7200 RPM HDD.
Since I have one of these clickers in my i9300, and I'd read about the Hitachi Drive Feature Tool (v1.97) in another thread, I decided to give it a whirl. Here's what I found out.....
1st, I DL'd the Feature Tool ISO at:
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm
I burned the ISO to disk with Nero, and used it to boot my i9300.
Selecting 'Change Acoustic Level' from the DOS era GUI runs the acoustic test, with the HDD running constantly. There is a slider switch to select your preferred level of quietness. I put my ear against the keyboard and at level 190 on the slider I could barely hear a thing. Natch, I set the level at 190 and exited the utility.
Finally, I ran HD Tach to compare the quiet HDD results to my previous noisy ones....
Default (Noisy):
Random access: 17.0ms
CPU utilization: 2% (+/-2%)
Average read: 30.8 MB/s
Burst speed: 91.1 MB/s
After Hitachi AAM (Quiet):
Random access: 16.7ms
CPU utilization: 4% (+/-2%)
Average read: 30.8 MB/s
Burst speed: 93.7 MB/s
(Looking at the graph in HD Tach, the average read on my 12 GB OS/Programs partition is around 38-40 MB/s in either case...)
Eh, not much difference, I'd say. Think I'll stick with the queiter drive settings!
Hope this helps my fellow sufferers.
HD Tach:
http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public...request=HdTach
Since I have one of these clickers in my i9300, and I'd read about the Hitachi Drive Feature Tool (v1.97) in another thread, I decided to give it a whirl. Here's what I found out.....
1st, I DL'd the Feature Tool ISO at:
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm
I burned the ISO to disk with Nero, and used it to boot my i9300.
Selecting 'Change Acoustic Level' from the DOS era GUI runs the acoustic test, with the HDD running constantly. There is a slider switch to select your preferred level of quietness. I put my ear against the keyboard and at level 190 on the slider I could barely hear a thing. Natch, I set the level at 190 and exited the utility.
Finally, I ran HD Tach to compare the quiet HDD results to my previous noisy ones....
Default (Noisy):
Random access: 17.0ms
CPU utilization: 2% (+/-2%)
Average read: 30.8 MB/s
Burst speed: 91.1 MB/s
After Hitachi AAM (Quiet):
Random access: 16.7ms
CPU utilization: 4% (+/-2%)
Average read: 30.8 MB/s
Burst speed: 93.7 MB/s
(Looking at the graph in HD Tach, the average read on my 12 GB OS/Programs partition is around 38-40 MB/s in either case...)
Eh, not much difference, I'd say. Think I'll stick with the queiter drive settings!
Hope this helps my fellow sufferers.
HD Tach:
http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public...request=HdTach
