Cleaning out HDs

[waynestewart]

I decided today was a good time to go through my spare ide hard drives and try and eliminate the ATA 33 and the 5400 rpm ones where possible. I found a few slow 20gb drives. Pretty much all the Apple ide hard drives below 10gb are 5400 rpm. I’ve been trying to think of a situation where one of those might be useful or necessary and I can’t seem to think of one.

I had a couple of 6500s handy. I’d upgraded almost everything in those except the hard drives. I rarely used them so I never bothered. Now seemed like a good time. I timed the boot then I copied everything over and timed booting with a 7200 rpm drive. One was about 10% faster booting and the other 20%

 

[tecneeq]

Sound of a 7k2 drive is different to a 5k4. 7k2 is usually whiney with silent clicking, 5k4 is more like tacka-tacka and a humm in the background.

I prefer the sound of a 5k4 in a Q650 style case, it opens a wider stage and sounds more lively. |)

 

[waynestewart]

Usually I don't notice the sound too much, the fans are more noticeable in my hearing range. I have a 9600 that I temporarily installed a mechanical drive in the other day. The difference wasn't really noticeable over the fan.

If I wanted to I could go to quieter fans as the 9600 has to be producing less heat. No mechanical HD and a G3 card in place of the 300mhz 604e