AAM For Samsung hd501LJ + hd160HJ?

SilentShoe · Post by **SilentShoe** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:55 pm

Hi, i just wanted to check and make sure it would be safe to use the hitachi hard drive tool to enable aam on my samsung hd501lj and hd160hj

better safe than sorry! what are the risks involved? or would it simply not activate?

thanks!

Michael Sandstrom · Post by **Michael Sandstrom** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:30 pm

There are no risks involved is setting AAM on the HD501LJ with the Hitachi Feature Tool. I have used both the Hitachi Feature Tool and a later version of Hutil to silence my four HD501LJ drives. Either utility will work as expected.

alfhenrik · Post by **alfhenrik** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 10:33 pm

Like Michael said, there are no issues with using the Hitachi Feature tool to enable AAM on your Samsung drives. I did it just last week on my two new HD501LJ's...worked like a charm.

JaYp146 · Post by **JaYp146** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 2:53 am

To those that have enabled AAM on their HD501LJ's, how much of a performance impact have you seen (before vs. after you enabled AAM)?

fjf · Post by **fjf** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 9:57 am

...and how much silence you've gained?

JaYp146 · Post by **JaYp146** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:46 am

fjf wrote:...and how much silence you've gained?

I know that enabling AAM results in noise reduction. Just wondering how much of a noticeable performance impact results from turning on AAM...

Michael Sandstrom · Post by **Michael Sandstrom** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 10:41 am

fjf wrote:...and how much silence you've gained?

I've gained great big gobs of silence. In fact, I've gained so much silence that I'm running out of space to store it.

Seriously, how much AAM helps depends on how loud the HD is before using it. My Samsung HD501LJ units are very quiet even without AAM so the noise difference is not great. I have not noticed a difference in performance with AAm enabled.

SilentShoe · Post by **SilentShoe** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:37 pm

thanks very much!
i guess i'll try it

JaYp146 · Post by **JaYp146** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 7:27 pm

Michael Sandstrom wrote:
fjf wrote:...and how much silence you've gained?
I've gained great big gobs of silence. In fact, I've gained so much silence that I'm running out of space to store it.

Seriously, how much AAM helps depends on how loud the HD is before using it. My Samsung HD501LJ units are very quiet even without AAM so the noise difference is not great. I have not noticed a difference in performance with AAm enabled.

Awesome, thanks!