Most hard drives have a very little known feature called “Advanced Acoustic Management” that allows you to inform the firmware of the drive that you want to pr

Most hard drives have a very little known feature called “Advanced Acoustic Management” that allows you to inform the firmware of the drive that you want to prioritize noise over seek speed, and it will gently accelerate and decelerate the moving heads. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_acoustic_management https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_acoustic_managemen...