Re: External Harddrives

On 2008-05-31 18:47:41 +0100, %steve%@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Steve Firth) said:

No personal experience of this one, so you'd be on your own if it was
what you were after. A two-drive raid will probably be noisier than a
single drive box. The drives tend to rotate at slightly different speeds
which causes some odd low frequency noise.

There *used* (15+ years ago) to be a way of synchronizing the spindles of multiple drives to reduce any beats. Is that sort of feature no longer available?

Cheers,

Chris

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