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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. Easy solution... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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).

    1. Re:Easy solution... by antiMStroll · · Score: 2, Insightful

      For twice the price, half the speed and a quarter the capacity? Bring the noise.

  2. Re:How freakin' loud are your systems? by fishbowl · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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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  3. actually... by niker · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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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  4. Noise cancellation... by Atomic+Frog · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  5. Re:What is so wrong with Hard Drive noise? by bigjnsa500 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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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