6 Mar
2009
6 Mar
'09
7:06 a.m.
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ
<gordonjcp at gjcp.net> wrote:
On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 10:16 -0600, Brian Lanning
wrote:
I've just recently fitted a SCSI-to-IDE bridge board and a 2GB flash
drive that resembles three 40-pin IDE connectors stacked one on top of
each other to my Emu ESI4000 sampler. ?It's about as fast as disk, but
totally silent. ?*Totally* silent. ?You can't imagine how much nicer
that is than the dentist's drill whine of the SCSI disk I was using
before. ?Why are SCSI disks so damn noisy? ?Anyway, I can hear myself
think and I don't need to use my bodge cable to spin down the hard disk
when using a mike. ?Productivity soars (not really).
It's sounding like I just need to watch ebay for a scsi to ide bridge
at the right price.
I think hard drive manufacturers assume scsi drives will be in noisy
server rooms instead of people's livingrooms. I think this results in
quieter, i don't know what, bearings maybe, in the drives. Maybe it's
the drive motors. Maybe more reliable drive motors are just noisier
for some reason.
I'm switching to CF for all my old machines and SSD for my new
machines as soon as it's practical.
brian