In a message dated 7/27/99 4:42:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<< As far as the noisy WD drives go, most WD drives feature a
 'wear-leveling' system that constantly moves the heads in small increments
 to cause even wear. For some drives, WD has firmware upgrades that reduce
 the noise.

 -Peter Ramins >>

Actually the noise was more of a clanking and unnatural hum that would fill
the room with noise constantly, and if I'm right (which I'm sure I am), hard
drives don't do that.  It was loud enough that you'd have to raise your voice
just to communicate with other people in the room.  But hey, if that's what
those hard drives are supposed to do, then why would anyone want to buy it?
And that was why I mentioned it, because I was trying to recommend hard
drives.  But it was definitely a hard drive error, and it was what shorted
out the motherboard causing the computer not to start up.

                                        Matt Brown

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