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Silencing a Hard Drive Using Household Items
Reader Justblair recommends his blog entry detailing how he made a hard drive silencer for a pittance. "This article demonstrates a very easy-to-make hard drive silencer that not only outperforms most commercially available devices, but is cheaper to implement as well. Requiring very little in fabrication skills, it is an ideal addition to a media PC or HTPC. It may even suit you if your head is aching after many hours of being whined at by your hard drive."
Does it involve bludgeoning with any number of common household items?
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Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
Well, sulky, then apply this technology to your fans. Put them in a box, pour in a lot of cooling gel and voila.
Make sure you seal the box. It's the key to keeping fan noise down.
He embeds them in gel and he suspends them with elastic.
Kinky!
Now, I can image a large number of household tools to cut up a hard drive, but whether they will fulfill the criterion "outperforms most commercially available devices"?
You mean like using a hammer?
- Life is what keeps you occupied while you are waiting to die
It's a bit like a car engine - you know what your machine is supposed to sound like. When it doesn't, then you investigate.
Unfortunately, my Xbox is apparently supposed to sound like an overloaded 747 during takeoff... (I work near a UPS hub - I can take a fresh comparison every half-hour or so during the day).
My sig sucks.
In a silent PC no one can hear you scream.
Or you could just buy some newer hard drives out there with high ariel density.
So how many mermaids can they fit into a hard drive these days?
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
Yeah, see, I was getting tired of hearing my hard drive whine, but rather than dampen the noise coming from it, I decided to drown it out: I had kids.
I'd rather have someone respond than be modded up.
So it seems that they just prohibit access to the drive.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Look like someone silenced Justblair's hard drive: the site is down...
1. post story to slashdot
2. watch server burst into flames
3. apply fire extinguisher liberally
4. enjoy perfectly quietened hard drive noises
(there's no "profit" in there... I must've missed a step!)
I used to have a sig, but I set it free and it never came back.
Just take the fans out, then there won't be any fan noise. As for the flashing and crackling noise of the subsequent flames...well, I can't help you there.
10 FILL MUG WITH COFFEE
20 DRINK COFFEE
30 GOTO 10
What's with you kids these days? Hard disks belong in the computer, not running hither and yon around the room. Lack of discipline causes all these problems, I say!
Show me a nice, well restrained hard drive and I'll show you a nice, well behaved hard drive. Take the time to teach your computer discipline - you'll be glad you did.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Generally, people who can hear the high-pitched whine of a TV or the whine of transformers can also hear hard drives whine and find all the whining noise annoying. People going deaf won't know what the hell I am talking about.
Personally I hate it when Rodimus Prime whines. Good thing they brought back Optimus Prime to put him in his place.
Mermaids? I thought he was talking about nipples.
>Larger slower fans are pretty much the key for noise to displacement ratio.
Much easier to outrun but they do more damage if they catch you.
Why bother
In a silent PC no one can hear the blue screen of death.
Grommets are always silent, but what starts to grate on me is the whining and grumbling from the Wallace.
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Pardon me? Speak into the funnel young man.
...and it shall be silent forever!
Ah, so now we know what M.C. was singing about when he said "STOP! Hammertime!"
I find quieting wife and kids with messy gels not only effective, but quite satisfying.
Better than being caught and eaten by a gazebo.
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So in your case it's a "cool and quiet" swappable SCSI drive?
I'm just curious, but what kind of gel do you use to silence your wife and kids?
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
Loud hard drives do exist, even in the 7200 RPM range. Consider yourself lucky if you've never hard to make the decision of whether or not to swap out an otherwise decent drive simply because the thing won't shut up. We have some 5+ year old Dells at work with hard drives that chatter annoyingly,
Like some cow-orkers.
He probably uses KY jell for his wife. hmmmmmm
And Welch's for the kids.
Depends on how it's done, I suppose, but I find that use of KY jell tends to make my other half *much* noisier...
Although she doesn't squeak as much, so that's a bonus...
I say we take off and nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...