Hi all, glad I found this list, glad to meet you! ... =http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lintec.de%2Fprod%2Fpd_silence.ht ml&lp=de_en&doit=done&frame=random hoho - _very_ funny...
mzeg@...
Feb 1, 2001 8:50 pm
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Hi, I have been asked whether the silent drives from Fujitsu actually exists, or just is something they say for marketing purposes. It has not been possible to...
Tomas Risberg
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Feb 1, 2001 11:05 pm
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I have been trying out two 20GB and one 10GB of Fujtsus silent drives, they are extreamly queit, and you can hardly tell if the drive is spinning or not. When...
Johan Fredin
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Feb 1, 2001 11:31 pm
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Well, two weeks came and went and no sign of a Fujitsu mpg3409at from CompSource. The drive is now listed as back ordered. Called Fujitsu America again and...
irwin feldman
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Feb 2, 2001 12:38 am
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Did anyone remember the home computer of the eighties ? ( I am thinking of the Sinclair ZXs and the Thomson TO7] Their power supply was not in the main case of...
philippe_barthelemy@...
Feb 6, 2001 11:44 am
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Hi, ... I had the same thought and asked one of the techs here at the Computer Science department. He didn't think it would work. The leads from the power...
Arthur Gerla
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Feb 6, 2001 11:53 am
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You mentionned the cable length from the external supply to the mainboard as a potential RF issue. OK. I am not sure whether is is a show stopper or not. By...
philippe_barthelemy@...
Feb 6, 2001 12:29 pm
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I recently learned that new Gateway computers (with up to a Pentium 3 CPU I believe) have only one fan in the system and are very quiet. They direct the power...
Alfred Morrissette
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Feb 6, 2001 7:22 pm
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Elan Vitale informed me recently re: their latest Whisper technology: Dear Sir, The 2nd generation Whisper will be suitable for any case. It is a fan which...
Alfred Morrissette
am@...
Feb 7, 2001 2:41 am
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Hi, ... Well, there's only one way to find out ;-) So I hooked up an extension cable I had laying about, making the total length between power supply and...
Arthur Gerla
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Feb 7, 2001 8:46 pm
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Hi Johan, The Fujitsu drives that you are trying out sound very good. What models are they? Do they have fluid bearings? Thanks! Irwin ... ...
irwin feldman
lakeif@...
Feb 8, 2001 4:20 am
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I just received a Fujitsu mpg3409at hard disk, and fortunately it has the "EF" mark which means it is the FDB version, though I hadn't exlicitly requested this...
Hrvoje Nezic
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Feb 8, 2001 9:07 am
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Thanks for trying.... I happen not to be that adventurous... I'll sub-contract the building of the PS to someone knowledgable in EE. Does anyone have the specs...
philippe_barthelemy@...
Feb 8, 2001 12:14 pm
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... http://www.formfactors.org/developer/specs/atx/atxspecs.htm Regards, Tomas Risberg...
Tomas Risberg
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Feb 8, 2001 1:43 pm
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... I've already grumbled about this earlier in private mail, I'll repost it here so others can see it: I've seen Fujitsu's silent drive propaganda elsewhere...
pgut001@...
Feb 8, 2001 3:46 pm
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Hi Hrvoje, Congratulations! Those drives are hard to find. What do you think of it so far? Thanks, Irwin ... ...
irwin feldman
lakeif@...
Feb 9, 2001 5:26 pm
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Hi Irwin! So far I am very satisfied with the Fujitsu MPG3409AT drive. My company bought me a computer with a MAXTOR 91021U2-(PM) hard disk. Well, this is a...
Hrvoje Nezic
hnezic@...
Feb 10, 2001 9:15 am
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Hi all, I ran across a harddisk test in the october Dutch language issue of CT, one of the better PC magazines on the continent. Some 331 disks were tested on...
Arthur Gerla
silent-pc-list@...
Feb 11, 2001 1:30 pm
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Yes the Fujitsu "silent drives" did have fluid bearings. They actualy have a new 40GB silent drive MPG3409AT-E ...
Johan Fredin
08-6019791@...
Feb 12, 2001 12:08 am
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Hi, All, Can anyone offer an update on quiet PCs from major vendors? I'm not up to building my own system, and I don't need a truly silent PC -- a reasonably...
David Taylor
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Feb 16, 2001 10:12 pm
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... I cant help here, but all I can say, it's not so difficult to build your own. I advised all my friends who said the same as you, and they all have built...
Menno M Jansz
menno@...
Feb 16, 2001 10:28 pm
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Hi, I'm completely new to this group, so I don't know if there are 10 people or a 1000 people on this list, or what its "ideological" orientation is. I'm...
Miles Hochstein
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Feb 16, 2001 10:43 pm
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... Check out the archive at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Silent-PC and all will be revealed. Another great place for in-depth information: ...
Arthur Gerla
silent-pc-list@...
Feb 16, 2001 11:01 pm
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David: I am in the same boat, lacking the time and expertise to build a from-scratch machine. Dare I suggest the Apple G4 cube - now reduced to 1499.00 - I am...
Nicholas R Givotovsky
nrg@...
Feb 16, 2001 11:09 pm
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... That's a tad smug. As I indicated in my post, I *did* peruse your archives & found a lot of dead ends. And I have chased all the links in the Silent...
taylor234@...
Feb 16, 2001 11:31 pm
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... all I can say, it's not so difficult to build your own. I advised all my friends who said the same as you, and they all have built their own now. Really...
taylor234@...
Feb 16, 2001 11:34 pm
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If you do go this way the following was found quite helpfull by my virgin-pcbuilder friends: http://www.amd.com/products/cpg/athlon/howtobuild/howtobuild.html ...
Menno M Jansz
menno@...
Feb 16, 2001 11:42 pm
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Hi, I am writing this message on my new Fujitsu-Siemens Scenic xS 1171 computer, which my company bought for me. Originally the computer came with a noisy...
Hrvoje Nezic
hnezic@...
Feb 17, 2001 9:24 am
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Hi Miles, I think this group now has 200+ members, and the number is growing. This group has no specific orientation. As you said, it is for buying, building,...
Hrvoje Nezic
hnezic@...
Feb 17, 2001 10:14 am
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Hi, A few things to add. Firstly on the MAC front - I spend what seems my entire life working with (and mainly repairing) Mac G4s, by which I mean the tower...
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