How to turn off the HDD? How to reduce the overall noise?

[jason]

This is most easily done in the bios.  Check for power settings or 
energy saver features.  You can tell the bios to power down the hard 
drive after 1 min or an hour later.  In your case I would set it to 1 
min, so about 1 min after you boot and login the hard drive will power 
down, unless you touch the mouse or keyboard.









Constantine wrote:

> Hello,
>
> My hard disc drive seems to be too noisy for me. I want to test, how 
> much idle noise would the system make with the hard drive turned off. 
> I do not want to unplug the wires, since I have had a lot of problems 
> last time I did that. Is there any command / utility that can turn my 
> HDD off for a minute or so?
>
> Are there any other utility that may help me reduce the noise in my 
> system?
>
> Right now I have IBM Deskstar 60GXP 41.0GB IC35L040AVER07-0, and I am 
> considering to change it to IBM (Hitachi) Deskstar 180GXP 60GB 
> IC35L060AVV207-0, or may be even Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 80GB 
> HDS722580VLAT20. Have anyone experienced any of those? Are they any 
> different in the idle noise they produce?
>
> My motherboard is AOpen AX4G-N Intel 845G(+ICH4) chipset.
>
> Cheers,
> Constantine.
>
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