Making a WD blue 7200 quiet

Petrolhead · 7 Mar 2016 at 08:51

Just setup a Raid 0 using two WD 1tb 7200 HDDs

The first think I noticed was how much nosier they were compared to using 1 2tb HDD

So I put some sound deadening on them. I do quite a bit of car audio installation and had some Silent Coat (http://www.silentcoat.co.uk/collections/silent-coat) lying around. A piece on each drive made a huge difference.

RavenXXX2 · 7 Mar 2016 at 09:27

You're not supposed to cover the holes on the top of the HDD.

Petrolhead · 7 Mar 2016 at 10:03

Thanks for the reminder

This is the stuff I used

Redgie · 7 Mar 2016 at 11:18

Crikey, these drives can get seriously hot, not sure I'd ever consider covering them in something like that

Ryan-3 · 7 Mar 2016 at 11:24

That's what I was thinking. Mine only spin up when they're being accessed, not that I can tell (unless I'm under the desk or in absolute silence) as they're pretty inaudible to be honest.

APM · 7 Mar 2016 at 12:24

Gobsmacked.

Petrolhead · 7 Mar 2016 at 12:32

APM said:
Gobsmacked.

??????

I am monitoring the temperature have plenty airflow around them

RavenXXX2 · 7 Mar 2016 at 12:47

Nothing worse than a noisy HDD when the rest of the rig is quiet. I might have tried this to cure my bad vibration HDD issues if I had not went 2.5 5400rpm drives.

Trifid · 7 Mar 2016 at 13:32

This isn't really that much different to the Scythe silent drive enclosure I used to have* to quieten my OS drive. Never had any problems with it.

*I'm pretty sure it is still sitting in the bottom of the PC actually

Frozennova · 7 Mar 2016 at 18:19

You must have some really sensitive hearing

I barely hear my home server/NAS which is pretty much above my head.

And that's got 4x WD Reds, 1x7200rpm Blue and 1x5400RPM Blue

Petrolhead · 7 Mar 2016 at 18:31

Frozennova said:
You must have some really sensitive hearing

I barely hear my home server/NAS which is pretty much above my head.

And that's got 4x WD Reds, 1x7200rpm Blue and 1x5400RPM Blue

Sorry, you will have to speak up

MatsyLR · 8 Mar 2016 at 01:20

I could hear my storage drive in my pc from the other end on my room, the vibration noise that at is. I eventually got a hd dock for top of my desk and it sits in there until its needed.

Vibration drives me mental.