- Joined
- May 24, 2005
Back in the day I purchased a Raptor 74gig about the time they came out (yes my friends hated me), and now it is my paperweight, and quite an effective one at that. My story goes like this: I did some research, and being the reckless guy that I tend to be when it comes to PC components, I found a way of manipulating the firmware/smart/acoustic management, or whatever you want to call it, to increase the overall speed of the drive, and thereby killed it in the process - it now speaks a pretty bushman Koi-San type language of clicks, scratches and ticks when you plug it in. Even though the drive is meant for high performance server/workstation applications, I found out that it is actually crippled in favour of better noise levels. Now being a fan of fast cars and such, if a machine doesn't make lots of noise then it isn't working hard enough in my opinion. I promptly disabled all acoustic management and found a nice reduction in seek times. However, the drive became seriously hot. My beige-box case had airflow slightly better than a cell in Alcatraz solitary confinement - you could still smell last month's LAN pizza in there - mmm, sweet chili chicken with extra cheese, thin base. It died about three months later. I had lost my invoice slip so I could not take it back to the company I bought it from. Now every good post is one that is ended with a question, for an ending based on an answer is a dead end, and thus a waste of your time in furthering your knowledge. So here is my obligatory question – Has anyone else ever attempted this on any Raptor and can it still be done?
