Home Brew Hard Drive Silencer/Cooler

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Home Brew Hard Drive Silencer/Cooler

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 21, 2003 @11:27AM from the great-lengths-for-quietude dept.

infodragon writes "As I was looking for ways to silence my system I ran across this article demonstrating a sandwich approach to silencing and cooling a hard disk. Quite a novel idea compared to other silencing techniques!"

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A much friendlier solution... by anaphora · 2003-10-21 11:27 · Score: 5, Funny

I always hold my drive between my legs while I'm using my system. The vibrations and heat lead to an enjoyable computer experience.
1. Re:A much friendlier solution... by Gherald · 2003-10-21 11:29 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  > I always hold my drive between my legs
  
  and I thought 48" IDE cables were useless...
  
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2. Re:A much friendlier solution... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-21 12:20 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  ls -lR /
  
  Oooh yeah
  
  emerge sync; emerge -puv world
  
  Mmm, that's what I'm talking about...
  
  tripwire --check; tripwire --check
  
  Yeah baby! Once is never enough!!
  
  perl -e '$x[$_]++ for 1..200_000_00'
  
  Swap it to me! Oh yeah!!!
  
  emacs
  
  Oh MAN.. yeah... YEAH!
  
  startkde
  
  OH GOD YES!!! OH FUCKING YEAH!! UNNNNNNGGGGH!! YES!!!!!!!!
3. Re:A much friendlier solution... by broller · 2003-10-21 13:20 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  and I thought 48" IDE cables were useless...
  
  Now you're just bragging!
mmmmm by hankaholic · 2003-10-21 11:32 · Score: 5, Funny

demonstrating a sandwich approach to silencing and cooling a hard disk
That's funny, I just applied the same approach to silencing and cooling some bacon.

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1. Re:mmmmm by DrEldarion · 2003-10-21 12:09 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Your approach drastically shortens the life of the bacon, though.
  
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Re:Christmas already? by cgranade · 2003-10-21 11:38 · Score: 3, Funny

Silent drive...holy drive...
If you're drive is filled with holes... you've got a problem. Could be why the drive is silent.

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hard drives make noise? by leekwen · 2003-10-21 11:39 · Score: 5, Funny

i've been using maxtor hard drives (diamond max series or something) for a while now, and i haven't heard anything from them since i upgraded my 2 giger many years ago. so i automatically assumed all modern hard drives don't make noise.

what does make noise though are the 9 fans in my case. however, when i try to sandwich them i don't get the same temperature benefits like the reviewer does with his hard drive. oh well.
Meh. by TheFlu · 2003-10-21 11:43 · Score: 2, Funny

Just put 4 or 5 computers in your room and you'll never hear the harddrives at all.

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Penny wise... by MarkusQ · 2003-10-21 11:51 · Score: 4, Funny

The Bottom Line: My HD sandwich works well. It quiets the HD substantially, keeps it much cooler, and cost me just US$12 to implement.
If you don't count the roughly $11,368.43 of his time spent on implementing, testing, and documenting the solution. I suspect he's an engineer. A programmer would wrap a towel around the drive, pause for a moment, and then say "Yeah, that's quieter." (Note: this is not speculation. I've have seen this.)
It takes an engineer to cook up something like this and then spend 10x the effort to figure out how many dB reduction there was.
-- MarkusQ
1. Re:Penny wise... by SpaceCadetTrav · 2003-10-21 12:23 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  The programmer will then try to sell the towel as an end-all solution because it worked on his computer.
  
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Re:Christmas already? by jpmkm · 2003-10-21 12:06 · Score: 3, Funny

They're speed holes.
Re:Christmas already? by cgranade · 2003-10-21 12:12 · Score: 3, Funny

I know someone with a 420GB RAID array... does that make them potholes?

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Am I the Only One? by oweneck · 2003-10-21 12:15 · Score: 2, Funny

I have 4 computers located a few feet from my bed which are on 24/7, and though still noisy, it just doesnt botther me, I guest Ive just dont have that great hearing that others have :(.
Re:Move the PC... by Geek+of+Tech · 2003-10-21 13:02 · Score: 2, Funny

Here's an idea. Buy offsite storage, like an ftp server. Remove your harddrive. Only use a ramdisk locally. When you need to save something, ftp it to your server. boot off of the network or a CD-ROM. Takes away most of the hard drive noise. :P

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What's all the fuss? by KC7GR · 2003-10-21 13:19 · Score: 2, Funny

I mean, c'mon! Fan & disk noise are some of the best sedatives I've ever come across, especially on a warm afternoon with just a bit of a breeze blowing through the lab. Get comfortable in your chair, and a high enough level of white noise from your systems, and you'll be out like a light in ten minutes, tops.

Seriously, folks, this works a lot better than counting sheep (cybernetic or otherwise). Take it from one who knows. Silence that stuff, and you'll have no easy way to fall asleep on your keyboard. ;-)

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Re:A nice article by xanadu-xtroot.com · 2003-10-21 13:47 · Score: 2, Funny

Do I smell smoke?

Yes. It's your brain overheating from contemplating the notion of glue or (at the least) double-sided tape...

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Re:What is so wrong with Hard Drive noise? by DAldredge · 2003-10-21 16:26 · Score: 2, Funny

Can't you read? He is going to UW Madison, that don't let in people who have common sense!