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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. 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.