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Home Brew Hard Drive Silencer/Cooler

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. A much friendlier solution... by anaphora · · 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 · · 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 · · 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!!!!!!!!

  2. mmmmm by hankaholic · · 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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    Somebody get that guy an ambulance!
    1. Re:mmmmm by DrEldarion · · Score: 4, Funny

      Your approach drastically shortens the life of the bacon, though.

      -- Dr. Eldarion --

  3. Re:Christmas already? by cgranade · · 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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    #define DRM chmod 000

  4. hard drives make noise? by leekwen · · 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.

  5. Penny wise... by MarkusQ · · 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

  6. Re:Christmas already? by jpmkm · · Score: 3, Funny

    They're speed holes.

  7. Re:Christmas already? by cgranade · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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    #define DRM chmod 000