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Doc;
I purchased a pair of 60GB 7,200RPM drives from Dell. They turned out to be IBM GXP 60's.
HD Tach indicated much longer seek times than expected.
I downloaded and ran the IBM disk utilities and discovered that the drives were shipped with acoustic management turned on and at maximum (they are extremely quiet).
Disabling the acoustic management brought the seek times from 12ms to 8.5ms!
It's quite possible that the WD's and Maxtors Dell sells are similarly configured.
MAX
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