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Set Automatic Acoustic Management level on hard drives
Authored by: CrisTUFR on Oct 18, '04 02:19:36PM

I'm not sure all Barracuda drives are exempt from this feature. The model I have in my MDD G4 (purchased last November) is covered by the following PDF.

http://www.nissho-ele.co.jp/storage/manual/seagate/hdd/cuda7200pm.pdf

That spec sheet claims that AAM is supported. I would like to turn AAM off (i.e. go for loud, if possible) since I've seen noticeable performance gains as a result of this in my past experience. I think newer Seagate models don't support the feature as a result of some patent dispute, though.

If someone's brave enough to try it with their Seagate-enabled MDD, I'd like to know the result.

HTH,

Chris



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Set Automatic Acoustic Management level on hard drives
Authored by: alexwegel on Oct 19, '04 12:04:32AM

You're right - this seems to have changed:-(
The manual for my drive
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/manuals/ata/cuda7200pm.pdf
says "AAM .. not supported".

So - it should work for yours.



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