Barracuda XT, Barracuda, Barracuda Green, DiamondMax and other desktop SATA and IDE drives

[VeganFanatic]

can keep the disk quiet with 4 screws holding it in place?

if needed disable the APM, disks use < 10W max so do not worry about excess electric useage

windows can power down inactive disks 

[portomomo]

Screws can fix everything, you're right , but not a faulty firmware.

[VeganFanatic]

i have to go way back to a fijitsu disk in the dos era to be able to power up a functionaly and noisy disk, that unit squals so loudly that even 4 screws and insullation could not get ahead of it

my advise, see if somebody will RMA them, depends on the vendor I suspect

I assume the disks are error free

[timmyj]

also having issues with this chirping sound

im running 5x ST3000DM001-9YN166 drives with CC9E firmware in my NAS

the NAS is essentially inaudible apart from this terrible sound emanating from these drives

these drives are in a ZFS RAIDZ1 array, so if people are annoyed with the sound from one of these drives, imagine 5 drives doing it simultaneously.

i am running solaris 11 however so not entirely sure how to disable APM from that OS

[VeganFanatic]

I have lots of Linux experience but I am not aware of any tool for lower level disk management

I have not used Solaris so you best check with their forum

[onedollar]

I'm considering purchasing the 3TB Barracuda (ST3000DM001) drives for use in my desktop that has the Intel/Marvell RST raid controller on the motherboard (ASUS P8P67 PRO B3 motherboard) in a RAID 1 setup, but am concerned about this "chirping" noises that I've been reading about.  Are these noises an issue?  Would this drive be suitable for use with the Intel/Marvell onboard RAID?  I'm currently running a pair of Hitachi Deskstar 1TB drives w/o issues.  Or should I be better off paying more for the Western Digital RED drives instead?

[VeganFanatic]

Make sure you have UEFI firmware for your MB to use large disks

[portomomo]

@onedollar The chirping is an issue and I would stay away from seagate disks unil they release an official statement. We don't know if it will lead to premature death of the drives, but for HDD I would use precaution.I don't know the disks you are suggesting.

@ veganfanatic UEFI is totally unrelated with large disk support, don't make people more confused.

[VeganFanatic]

UEFI is needed for booting > 2tb

[portomomo]

Sorry, you 're right. But it's unrelated with our thread.