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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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  3. 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.