[PeNZ]

And now I can hear the annoying noise of the hard drives spinning!!!! Not to mention the loud read/writing. Damn you cant win.

[shrugs*]

Mount it differently using some padding.. when they're actually screwed and mounted into the case it echos/vibrates inside the case.

[ninefivezero]

Yep. How many drives do you have, and what case?

Post some pics if you can.

[El_Presidente_Pufferfish]

details on 'i made my comp super quiet' ?

i wish i only heard my hard drives

[PeNZ]

I bought 6 thermaltake thunderblades, and replaced all 4 of my case fans, put one in the psu(the other was 92mm) and put a ati silencer3 on my radeon. My cpu cooler is a TT silent boost.

Heres the HDDs 2 of them.


Antec SX1035B

[Sparky]

That first picture makes me appreciate the hdd mounts on my Lian Li. It's also a pretty noise dampener. If take off the side panel, all hell breaks loose.

And how did you put a fan in your psu? Did I miss something from the other thread?

[PeNZ]

I took it apart, and switched the fan, I had to cut the old fans plug off, and soder(sp?) the new fan to the olf pulg.

[Chair]

mouse pad hdd silencer works wonders, my two seagates are on one on the bottom of my case and I can't hear them until they start rumbling (reading/writing), but when I had my two western digitals on there they were quieter at reading/writing so I didn't hear them at all.

[ninefivezero]

If you want to quiet the HDDs, you could get something like this, which works very well: http://www.siliconacoustics.com/novibes3.html

Too bad it costs $30. You could do what I did before, just put a hard drive on something soft at the bottom of the case like foam, rubber, somehting like that. I used an old mouse pad. However since you have 2 HDDs, that makes things a little harder, since you can only do one in that ghetto way. Something to think about though.

And there are a million ways to rig up your own hard drive suspension system for just a few bucks too...

[Chair]

Originally Posted by ninefivezero

If you want to quiet the HDDs, you could get something like this, which works very well: http://www.siliconacoustics.com/novibes3.html

Too bad it costs $30. You could do what I did before, just put a hard drive on something soft at the bottom of the case like foam, rubber, somehting like that. I used an old mouse pad. However since you have 2 HDDs, that makes things a little harder, since you can only do one in that ghetto way. Something to think about though.

And there are a million ways to rig up your own hard drive suspension system for just a few bucks too...

I've got two drives on a mousepad :P built my own mounting bracket and stuff

[PeNZ]

I could probably just fit a mouse pad on the sides of the harddrives in its metal casing, and just make holes in it and get larger screws.

[Chair]

Originally Posted by PeNZ

I could probably just fit a mouse pad on the sides of the harddrives in its metal casing, and just make holes in it and get larger screws.

That'll be a tight fit for sure

[PeNZ]

I like it tight

[ninefivezero]

I guess you can always try.

However it has one flaw, with what you just said, there would still be a metal on metal connection from the HDD to the case, through the screws. Now, it would cut down the noise a lot I'm sure, but it could be better.

[Canadian_man001]

Take some really thin foam or spong and put it between the case and your hard drives. And use a foam washer under the head of the screws. the case will fundamentally vibrate with the hard drives and amplify the noise. thankfully my hard drives are unltra-silent

[Sparky]

Way to bump the topic man.

[Da Lucky 1]

hes bumping all the threads

[gB dAvId x]

thats cause he's a newb

[EdT]

You can only quiet your HDD's spinning by suspendeding it on elastic or putting into a enclosure like a Sycthe enclosure, but you can quiet down the seek and write by using a software from Hitachi-IBM that would work on most HDD.

[NoseMaster]

Fill it with shaving cream

[PeNZ]

Way to bump this again n00b

[oblivious_maximus]

you could suspend the drives with bungee cord. that's what I wanted to do when I had 3 drives.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article109-page1.html

[Squalleh]

hm.....my pc is still horibbly. noisy. I've dropped it so many times the case is dented and rattles about like fuck...its got a bunch ofcheap fans and optical drives that sound like tractors.

My solution - buy the biggest speakers you can find. Then you cant even hear your pc! (or anything else for that matter 0_o )

[Pope John]

I need to fit in an extra HDD in my comp.

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