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Home Brew Hard Drive Silencer/Cooler
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!"
Use a notebook hard drive with a 2.5 -> 3.5 adapter (and possibly a 3.5 - 5.25 adapter if you like). Less noise, less heat, less power. (Also less space and more money, but oh well).
...because it makes the drive much larger. I don't know about anyone else, but I don't like resting drives on the bottom of my case because their new heat sink is so big it won't fit anywhere else. For someone with just one drive and plenty of space this may work, but that's pretty much the limit.
I'm sure this is an unusual situation, but if you have to use a computer in the same room as a recording mic, it's trouble. I don't know why everyone else wants quiet computers, but I certainly know why film and audio folks need them.
There is a whole level of "silence" to film foley guys, they really WILL hear a pin drop and it will be an expensive problem.
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the idea on both links you showed is exactly the same - to increase the mass, so its inertia increases, making the whine from the motor and the seak vibrations displace a lot less of the drive's enclosure. in sum - not a novelty compared to the comercial product. by the way, that's the sleaziest temperature measurement I've ever seen: notice that the temp diode touches the alu plate, as well as the disk - obviously, he's not reading the true disk's temp. to finalize, check out the date of the overclockers.com article, 5/8/01 - that's hardly "news", nor is it for "nerds" because of the way it was put up end of rant (sometimes I just can't take it and stay still)
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Your fan can be always on, as can be your hard drive. The point being, it's a constant, steady noise source, which makes a perfect candidate for active noise cancellation.
Anyone tried it yet? Just record a sequence from your computer, then play it back and keep adjusting the phase until everything's quiet.
The reset plug is always 2 pins. The problem I just frickin HATE is the Power LED. Its either 2 pins or 3 pins. And the motherboard is always 2 pins. ARGH!!!!!!
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