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Silencing a Hard Drive Using Household Items

Posted by kdawson on from the bread-olives-and-silence dept.

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."

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  1. Solution by NXprime · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or you could just buy some newer hard drives out there with high ariel density. WD 640GB AAKS model & 1TB drives are practically dead silent. That or buy some SSD's. Really this noise issue is beginning to lose importance these days and that's the point I'm trying to make here.

  2. cooling pads + box by lobiusmoop · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm not sure that the 'cooling pads plus box' enclosure is a good idea. It looks like it will make the drive less efficient at radiating heat away. Might lead to overheating, especially in the fanless system in the article.

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  3. Re:Maybe it's just me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  4. Re:i have never found hard drive noise a problem by Cylix · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Larger slower fans are pretty much the key for noise to displacement ratio.

    I've been fairly happy with my antec case which even incluedes a very very large fan at the top of the case.

    My only complaint is these fans are managed via switch attached to each fan. Sure, I never have to turn them up, but let the board regulate the flow would be better.

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  5. Re:i have never found hard drive noise a problem by sbeckstead · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I find the key to keeping fan noise down is to wear noise canceling headphones and turn the pocket radio up slightly. Voila no fan noise and I can watch the game with a nice commentary to boot. This even works to quiet wife noise and kid noise. No messy gels involved.

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