Try em on for fun and bit of off topic sorry! Miniscribe if they're still working: 36xx (noisy stepper), 6085 more of a house thumper, 3180E real loud rapid-fire tink tink and dreadful screech like blackboard/fingernails when seeking from one track to track in long, rapid steps.. 8450+. Few Priam models that uses 16 heads on linear voice coil and that make a scary metallic pinging like pong ball being dropped on startup. And few old Maxtor 7xxx models, they make noises like baby rattle and maybe still does that on current models. Remember! That older 7xxxx models are actually Miniscribe's latest design just before Maxtor which regeattably downgraded in reputation when they grabbed that stupid brand. Conners and those Seagate's "Conners" is very silent hum but not exactly real performer. Historical item, several seagate engineers started up Conner company in around '85 after arguements with Seagate officals on proper designs of making 3.5" which Seagate did not listened to. Seagate made lot of stinker ST1xx series where conner made lot of reliable CP3xxx/CP30xxx series but later models got poorer with time as they developed newer ones with larger bytes. After this mistake, bought up the Impimis instead to get their expertise in 3.5 drives. Comments: The original CP30101 disc pack looks not too different from CFA 850, 1gb drives. That original CPS3425A I think is what exactly looks like segate is currently producing now. :( AND real POOPer of the day few days ago when we tried to make one of them work with a ST5850A and the new "Conner" 3.2GB I think. That clearly shows that Seagate did not fully worked all bugs out of that original "Conner" hd bios. Not successful, we put it on seperate port instead. Suggset choose more carefully if one is going with Seagate's "Conner" drives now. I'm staying on the fence on this one until time will tell then I will drop the "Conner" sigma from my list after all if things get better. Quantums like fireball series and seagate's ST5xxxx is just tad noisy but not too objectable as they usually are very fast performer. That noise issue/vibration issues works well when using strong mounting hardware in good solid cases. Noise level get worse if the fans that seems to work is not spinning smoothly enough! Troll

Sam, Good thing, you asked! Please jump over to the www.wdc.com and d/l the program that will revise the hd's bios to be more quieter. Troll