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hello all. im wondering about this hdd acoustic mode in my bios it is set to (bypass) as i know this is for older drives why would dell use this setting, as this is a new system. should i put the hdd acoustic mode setting to performance? as this will speed up the hard drive. thanks ZENNO
Name: wizard-fred Date: November 22, 2006 at 01:29:36 Pacific
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I think the acoustic mode is the quiet mode, that reduces performnce. Reducing seek times makes less noise. Try it and see if you can here the difference. You need a disk intensive application like defrag, or searching a large database.
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