> I've tried with the 5 sata drives I could get my hands on, they all list
quoted text
> some recommended acoustic management value but all fail the same way

A lot of drives dropped the acoustic management stuff internally. If I
remember rightly there was a patent dispute about it just after it got
into the ATA standard. 

Alan
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