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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!
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.
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.
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!
>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
Grommets are always silent, but what starts to grate on me is the whining and grumbling from the Wallace.
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I find quieting wife and kids with messy gels not only effective, but quite satisfying.
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."
He probably uses KY jell for his wife. hmmmmmm