here's what you need to do.... since the majority of the bumps will be vertically... you'll want to have a suspension above and below the hdd... a simple piece of foam would do the trick (soft.. non-polystyrene). you won't want the heads, which are flying above the platters, to hit the platters.. therefore you'll want to mount it with the platters perpendicular to the moments of the forces. So, you mount it sideways, with padding on both top and bottom.. if you were to use padding where the top and bottom are a C shape facing the drive, you shouldn't have a problem with lateral motion. 2 long screws (with something covering the threads down to the drive, so as not to restrict vertical motion) down to the top of the drive.. this will allow vertical motion, and since you'll want to not restrict any lateral motion, you can easily leave the 2 bottom screws out.
one other problem you'll encounter is heat. what I did for my car MP3 player was had the hdd mounted in a removable enclosure, with the enclosure shock mounted. (stored in that little compartment in between my seats) Since the compartment is quite large..1986 full size blazer, I easily have room for additional drives/enclosures)
All this can be done for $7 and a trip to a computer show.
at what cost though? and how will it perform vs silver based paste? you can get 77% silver based paste for $14/5.6oz... and it works great
www.arcticsilver.com
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yah, qnx. thats used in my state's decommissioned nuclear power plant (connecticut yankee nuclear power plant). go QNX ! ;)
here's what you need to do.... since the majority of the bumps will be vertically... you'll want to have a suspension above and below the hdd... a simple piece of foam would do the trick (soft.. non-polystyrene). you won't want the heads, which are flying above the platters, to hit the platters.. therefore you'll want to mount it with the platters perpendicular to the moments of the forces. So, you mount it sideways, with padding on both top and bottom.. if you were to use padding where the top and bottom are a C shape facing the drive, you shouldn't have a problem with lateral motion. 2 long screws (with something covering the threads down to the drive, so as not to restrict vertical motion) down to the top of the drive.. this will allow vertical motion, and since you'll want to not restrict any lateral motion, you can easily leave the 2 bottom screws out.
one other problem you'll encounter is heat. what I did for my car MP3 player was had the hdd mounted in a removable enclosure, with the enclosure shock mounted. (stored in that little compartment in between my seats) Since the compartment is quite large..1986 full size blazer, I easily have room for additional drives/enclosures)
All this can be done for $7 and a trip to a computer show.
at what cost though? and how will it perform vs silver based paste? you can get 77% silver based paste for $14/5.6oz... and it works great www.arcticsilver.com