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January 17th, 2007 16:00
Setting disk speed options in BIOS: does it affect life of hard drive?
The Latitude D620's BIOS has a choice for hard drive options of "quiet" or "high performance" ( I think there are only two options).
The default is "quiet", which I really appreciated after enduring the whine of an Inspiron 3800 for four years. I selected the "performance" option and I swear the D620 is now 50% faster. OK, 25%.
Anyway, my question is, does running the hard drive in this faster, slightly noisier mode cut it's life expectancy? Is the default mode better?
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Posted January 17th, 2007 19:00
the trade-off is the hdd becomes more noisy.