On Thu, 11 May 2006 13:58:00 +0000, Will Hartung wrote:

> Are they beasts or not too bad? How are they vs an Ultra 10?
>
> Thanx!
>
> Regards,
>
> Will Hartung

Don't know about the Ultra 10...
But I have one Ultra 5 and one Blade 2000, and the Blade 2000 is a lot
quieter than the Ultra 5 is.
The Ultra 5 was really noisy with the default fan and the default hdd.
I changed the fan's too Papst fan's, much better =).
I also changed the hdd to a newer and more quiet Seagate Barracuda disk.

But you can't change the fans in the Blade 1000/2000 though it's not
"PC-standard" fans. Although you accually don't have to change the fans,
they are controlled and quiet.

The only time the Blade 2000 is really noisy is during boot and shutdown,
don't know why...