Yavuz AKYAZICI said: >Hi Bjorn, >Here is how it works. You can decrease the noise of your drives. >However, It decreases your performance as well. If you increase >your performance it also increases noise. I am very happy with >the way it is now. It is very quiet and I did not even come close to >a bottleneck in performance. You should be able to play 48 or >even 64 tracks (or even more) with these drives without the need >of an adjustment. > >Regards >Yavuz AKYAZICI Well I hate to put the dampers on this but running this patch to this drive definately degrades performance. What it actually does is reduce the acceleration of the actuator between seeks, thus reducing performance. Your statement above 'You can decrease the noise of your drives. However, It decreases your performance as well.' is correct, so unless you really need to reduce the noise for some strange reason then don't do it. I cannot think of anyone who would need to do this. If the drive is making that much noise to cause a problem then it needs to be in a different room, or in a different box with better acoustic damping. Reducing the noise level of a single disk drive is not going to make a huge difference to the overall noise level when you take everything else into account. Regards, Phil Every email from this sender has a free attachment...with a sort or raffia work base that was only put there the night before at about eight Oclock... **************************************************** This email has been checked by the e-Sweeper Service ****************************************************