Insane komt aanzetten met dit nieuwsartikel van The Register, over fluisterstille harddisks van Quantum. Dankzij de Quiet Drive Technology wordt het mogelijk om harde schijven in bijvoorbeeld settop boxen te verwerken, waar eenlaag geluidsniveau essentieel is. Verder wil Quantum de technologie gebruiken om de irriterende bijgeluiden van z'n 7200 en 10.000rpm SCSI schijven te dempen, zodat deze herrieschoppers zonder aantasting van gebruiksgemak in desktop systemen verwerkt kunnen worden:
In read and write mode the Fireball lct's average decibel level is 32 decibels. According to Quantum, it's nearest rival measured 32 decibels when idle and 35 decibels when active. The average PC hard drive produces 36-48 decibels when in use.Quantum says it will incorporate its proprietary acoustic technology (called Quiet Drive Technology) into its 7200rpm Atlas V, and its Atlas 10K series high performance drives.
Quiet drives are an essential feature for the new class of home entertainment devices requiring local storage. We wouldn't put up with the HDD "hum" in our living room, so why should we put up with that horrible noise in our offices? It's good to see vendors extending quiet drives to the desktop PC market. This strikes us as a much more meaningful performance improvement than shaving a millisecond or two off average seek time.
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