Disable Acoustic HDD Mode?

Dyre Straits · August 27th, 2007, 12:25 PM

Anyone know of a way to disable this 'feature' on various HDDs? Seems Hitachi has something available, but, I don't have any Hitachi HDDs installed.

My HDDs are:

WD (SATA)
Samsung (SATA)
and
Seagate (IDE)

SiSoftSandra and various other benchmark/testing apps are suggesting I turn off the Acoustic Management for better performance. So far, I've come up empty using Google.

Mac Daddy · August 27th, 2007, 12:35 PM

Didn't find anything to shut it off either Dyre just info about what it is as I am sure you did on google. There are some other links on this one not sure if it helps you or not Bro

Automatic Acoustic Management - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dyre Straits · August 27th, 2007, 12:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mac Daddy

Didn't find anything to shut it off either Dyre just info about what it is as I am sure you did on google. There are some other links on this one not sure if it helps you or not Bro

Automatic Acoustic Management - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yeah, I've been directed to that wiki article a few times in my search for an answer.

Since it says that 'most modern' HDDs have this feature disabled by default, it makes me wonder just how accurate the programs like SiSoft are when they state that the drives have it enabled. Since almost all of my drives are SATA, do these even have the feature installed?

morbo · August 27th, 2007, 12:50 PM

Very interesting
i will keep a close eye on this thread
as i would gladly accept some performance loss on my music machine

if acoustic means what i think it means too tired too look it up atm

i fell through a roof, caught my self on the rafters
but tore muscles and i can hardly breath ,so its beer o`clock
another security job for a friend

this is why this is a cool forum!

Mac Daddy · August 27th, 2007, 12:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dyre Straits

Yeah, I've been directed to that wiki article a few times in my search for an answer.

Since it says that 'most modern' HDDs have this feature disabled by default, it makes me wonder just how accurate the programs like SiSoft are when they state that the drives have it enabled. Since almost all of my drives are SATA, do these even have the feature installed?

Was wondering myself Dyre I sometimes question Sandra myself you have to be very careful with it sometimes ... on this topic I really don't have any more info for you Bro but interested to see what you find

Dyre Straits · August 27th, 2007, 12:58 PM

I'm thinking that it's the Samsung HDDs in my system causing this. Samsung HAS incorporated something they call, NoiseGuard, on all of their HDDs. So, it could be that it's this feature that's being detected. Samsung's site has no utility for disabling it, either.

Mac Daddy · August 27th, 2007, 01:01 PM

Nope don't see anything either all google brought up was Maxtor and Hitachi....

morbo · August 27th, 2007, 01:28 PM

i will ask my teck guy tomorrow (local pc store owner)

he sells samsung gear

im quite impressed with the dvd burner

and put a samsung hdd in a friends machine had no complaints

but i didnt run sandra over it either.

gen.Rage1991hrv · August 27th, 2007, 02:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dyre Straits

Anyone know of a way to disable this 'feature' on various HDDs? Seems Hitachi has something available, but, I don't have any Hitachi HDDs installed.

My HDDs are:

WD (SATA)
Samsung (SATA)
and
Seagate (IDE)

SiSoftSandra and various other benchmark/testing apps are suggesting I turn off the Acoustic Management for better performance. So far, I've come up empty using Google.

WD and Seagate dose not have anything like that
about samsung - never seen any of them (when they start to make them??hehehehhe)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dyre Straits

I'm thinking that it's the Samsung HDDs in my system causing this. Samsung HAS incorporated something they call, NoiseGuard, on all of their HDDs. So, it could be that it's this feature that's being detected. Samsung's site has no utility for disabling it, either.

check the jumpers on hdd
maybe it have that option on it

morbo · August 27th, 2007, 02:43 PM

[quote check the jumpers on hdd
maybe it have that option on it [/quote]

standard jumpers on the 80gig pata hdd i put in a friends

as normal i limit it too 32 gig partition
then take the limit hdd jumper off
and format the rest
at least i know my jumpers
and learn`t too build a pc when they were important!

good thought though

may be right
i only delt with pata gear