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Enable AAM on Western Digital Hard Drive
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Mar 15, 202647798 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I have a Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 7200rpm hard drive with unbearable seek noise! See Quiet Hard Drive suggestions. I have replaced the drive now, but don't want it to go to waste. Does anyone know how to enable AAM (Automatic Acoustic Management) on Western Digital Drives? I have an Asus P5…
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Fix for: Enable AAM on Western Digital Hard Drive
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A thread at Hexus here, describes another user's identical problem, and several possible solutions. The final "stop-gap" solution that worked for that user was using the Windows version of hdparm and setting up a batch file to run at startup, since …
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