Quote Originally Posted by RPGWiZaRD
And here's even more pictures, appearently there's at least 3 different versions of same product:

http://hardwarelogic.com/articles/re...HDD_bottom.jpg - This is the best one that is actually very silent.

http://img.ferra.ru/pubimages/90521.jpg - this is the version I have which is very loud

http://www.garbage.at/7200.10_pcb.jpg - here's one with smaller PCB!

WTF, for me this is something very intolerable. Shame on you Seagate, all 7200.10 should be produced as the only good version out of these 3.

If this continues I'll never pick a Seagate drive again, I so don't wish they bought my fav manufacturer Maxtor tho. Ordered a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB SATAII and hopefully it still follows the old standard Maxtor design and AAM should be still possible to change right? I mean they can't just drop the AAM support for a product line that at least has had this feature from start, can they?

I've heard so many good things about Seagate through the years but are all Seagate supporters finding this OK or what? Plz share some opinions. You shouldn't need to hunt the only good version there is of the product, you should know what you get BEFORE you make the purchase which you don't in this case and only 1 version of a product should with same product code should be allowed. It's one thing if they offer a 8MB and 16MB version for example, but having different parts in the drives is so wrong. As it seems right now I lost 30€ thanks to Seagate, it's not much but still something but I'm more pissed about the useless time spent with it.
i got the first version and mine is loud too ...