Elastic suspension of hard drives.

[iamtrout]

Just wondering. Does it make the drive dead silent? Rating of 1-10, 10 being highest?

Real life experiences only please.

 

[Dough1397]

no replies so i'll post... i would say vibration noise is gone.... but i never used it, i would try it but too many techinically challenged people using the computers in my house so i dont trust them.....

 

[Dough1397]

btw nice list of fried shitt

 

[iamtrout]

Hehe, thanks. There's also a 1GHz Duron in there somewhere that was converted into a keychain after I accidentally chipped the core.

Edit: Now with updated profile.

 

[akira34]

That's what I can do with the old chip I yanked out of a laptop (might be a p1, don't think it's a p2 of any speed)... With the way drives are designed these days, I'd say if you have a good case, you won't gain much, if anything, by bungee jumping your hard drives. If anything, I'd think you'd risk damaging them if you moved the computer... If you think you want to make them more silent, and the noise is 100% traced back to vibration to the case, get some of the items to put between the drive and cage. You can go with something as easy as rubber washers/grommets or one of the several items made to put the hard drive into a 5.25" bay.

Personally, the only time I hear my hard drives is when the heads move to read/write from/to them... Otherwise, I don't get a peep out of them.

 

[Tiamat]

Suspension, if you use bungee cord - smallest from mcmaster-carr will eliminate practially all if not all vibration from the harddrive. The drive will still have its characterisitic grind. This can only be eliminated by serious soundproofing - not very easy

 

[akira34]

I get no vibration sounds from my hard drives... Then again, I'm using a QUALITY case, with good drives. People that go with either cheap cases, or cheap drives, are probably driven made by the noise... They only have themselves to blame there.

 

[hafa]

The machines I build using the antec SLK3700 series cases (rubber drive mounts) are without exception without discernable drive noise. At around US$53 for the SLK3700AMB, it's a very inexpensive upgrade, as you also recieve the noise-reducing benefits of 120mm case fans.

 

[L00PY]

It depends on where you're coming from and your drive.

If you have a bunch of case fans and a standard heatsink, your gains won't be noticable. OTOH, the PSU fan and 2 5V Panaflo L1As are the only fans in your system (with passively cooled / fanless CPU/VGA/NB), suspension will have a very noticable effect on drive noise.

And it does depend on the drive. Suspension will reduce they noise but won't silence a Raptor or noisy Seagate SATA seeks. Start will a quiet drive to begin with (say an old PATA Barracuda or Spinpoint with Nidecs) and suspension will make it near dead silent.