Well - I reformated and the drive is still at this speed.
I'm not able to download powermax from maxtors website. I pressed the agree button for the disclosure and it doesn't take me anywhere. Anyone have a copy o their computer?
Maxtor is suppose to be one of the silent brands. Maybe "acoustic management" is disabled? Look in S. Sandra to find out. If it's disabled you can download a program called "SetAcousticManagment" from maxtors website. Then you frun the program and enable acoustic managment. That should quiet down the disk a bit, but you will take a small performance hit in seektime.
BTW:That is almost the exact same "score" I get for my maxtor disks.
It normally configures properly, but check the device manager on the IDE ATA/ATAPI controller > Properties > Advanced tab to make sure it's in UMDA mode. Also, if it's on XP, check the event manager for CRC or device errors. XP can ramp down UDMA modes to attampt to prevent errors.
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