I agree. We have several Thinkpads at work particulary loud hard drives. A good modern 3.5 is much quieter.Originally posted by: vegetation
While some laptop hard drives are on the quiet side, many are not. I've heard many 2.5" drives that are much louder than a comparable 3.5" setup.
Originally posted by: jschuk
Where are you going to find a laptop with RAID built-in? Don't even think about using dynamic drives with W2K or XP, because the OS is setup to disable the striping feature when installed on a laptop.
how does the OS know it's on a laptop?