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Andreas Wacknitz <A.Wacknitz@gmx.de> writes:

>Will Hartung wrote:
>> Are they beasts or not too bad? How are they vs an Ultra 10?
>> 
>> Thanx!
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Will Hartung
>> 
>> 
>As I don't own an Ultra 10 I can only talk about my Blade 2000.
>The two main sources of noise are:
>	1. Two big (119mm x 119mm x 38mm) fans
>	2. The disc(s)

>Both fans are temperature controlled but they produce some air flow 
>noise even when the machine is idle.
>Both produce enough noise such that the disc is no problem ;-)

>I have replaced one of the fans by a low noise Papst fan. After this
>I was able to hear the original SUN 72G disc (MAN3735F) and thus 
>replaced it by a Seagate ST373207FC.
>Now I can only hear the disc during reads or writes.

I've been checking out the Sunon fan catalogs and there are quite a number
of possible substitutes to make machines quiter. The trouble is picking ones
that are stocked by suppliers but there is a good enough selection sold by
places like Jameco (in the US), etc. to get some ideas.

As for disks, replacing drives with ones that have fluid bearings is the way
to go for super-quiet disk operation, but I don't know how they're going
cost-wise as I haven't shopped for new drives for quite some time other than
scoring a nice new 73 GB FCAL drive to go in the SB1000 system.

Craig.
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