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    New M1530, Noisy Hard-Drive!

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by heath, Oct 11, 2008.

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    heath Newbie

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    I just recently received my new M1530 with a 320GB Western Digital Scorpio drive. I've noticed this thing is very noisy! I had a MacBook prior to this and I also have a WD passport external 2.5" drive and both of these were almost completely unnoticeable. The Scoprio, however, is LOUD. Any accessing of the drive is super annoying, and you can imagine that can be a lot especially with Superfetch.

    Is this a known issue? Anything I can try? Should I look into another drive?
     
    heath, Oct 11, 2008
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    fonduekid JSUTAONHTERBIRCKINTEHWLAL

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    heath Newbie

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    I've tried turning off a bunch of services and so forth. I've also read good reviews about the Scorpio drives so I'm a bit surprised. It is just so much louder than my previous MacBook Pro and I'm almost considering swapping the hard-drives... I'm not sure it will do much good though.
     
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    basskiddanny Notebook Evangelist

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    I think this is caused by the actual Hard Drive and not anything to do with the XPS M1530 itself. Just this particular model of HDD.

    I have the same 320GB drive in mine and although it doesn't really bother me it is noticeably louder than the Studio 15 I just got my girlfriend for her 21st. Her 160GB HDD is silent pretty much.

    Turning off superfetch reduces the amount of access to the hard drive but you shouldn't need to disable this, it is the fault of the hard drive. I am thinking of changing mine but I am waiting for a 7200RPM 320gb SSD to become available at a suitable price and I am assuming that will go straight into my 1530 no problemo.
     
    basskiddanny, Oct 23, 2008
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