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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: runequester on November 13, 2010, 04:45:41 PM

Title: noisy internal drives
Post by: runequester on November 13, 2010, 04:45:41 PM
why on earth were the internal drives commodore used so noisy ?

This might be a dumb question, but almost every external drive I've had for an amiga has always been far more quiet.
Title: Re: noisy internal drives
Post by: Tension on November 13, 2010, 04:51:23 PM
Cos they were so old?

EDIT:  i.e they were 1992 technology
Title: Re: noisy internal drives
Post by: runequester on November 13, 2010, 05:04:46 PM
I realize I messed up my first post. WHat I meant to say was.. EXTERNAL drives were always more quiet than the internal commodore ones.

Stupid early morning typing
Title: Re: noisy internal drives
Post by: Franko on November 13, 2010, 06:07:21 PM
Quote from: runequester;591480
I realize I messed up my first post. WHat I meant to say was.. EXTERNAL drives were always more quiet than the internal commodore ones.

Stupid early morning typing


Probably because the internal ones are inside the Amigas casing which acts sorta like a loudspeaker cabinet in a way and the external ones were in far tighter enclosures with almost no room for sound reverberation... :)

(wow... don't believe I just typed that, sounds almost too sensible for me... :) )
Title: Re: noisy internal drives
Post by: runequester on November 13, 2010, 06:09:12 PM
Quote from: Franko;591499
Probably because the internal ones are inside the Amigas casing which acts sorta like a loudspeaker cabinet in a way and the external ones were in far tighter enclosures with almost no room for sound reverberation... :)

(wow... don't believe I just typed that, sounds almost too sensible for me... :) )


Did you forget to drink this morning ? :)

That does make total sense though.
Title: Re: noisy internal drives
Post by: Franko on November 13, 2010, 06:13:30 PM
Quote from: runequester;591500
Did you forget to drink this morning ? :)

That does make total sense though.


Naw, ah only woke up about an hour ago (5pm) and my medication hasn't kicked in yet... :lol:

It's easy to prove though remove an old internal drive and place it in an external case, the difference is quite amazing... :)
Title: Re: noisy internal drives
Post by: motrucker on November 13, 2010, 08:30:39 PM
I just bought a copy of BAD for my trusty old A1000. I am amazed at how much less noise BADed disks make, not to mention a huge speed increase!