Silencing HDDs

Danger Phoenix · 10 Sep 2007 at 21:34

After posting in another hard disk thread, I thought I would upload some photos of how I made my hard drives quieter.

When the hard drives are in direct contact with the case, you can hear the spinning noise, and when you have 4 hard disks this can be quite noisy.

I simply bought some elastic shoe laces and made a cradle for my drives to sit in, ensuring that they never come in direct contact with the case.

Danger Phoenix · 10 Sep 2007 at 21:34

Danger Phoenix · 10 Sep 2007 at 21:43

masterful engineering

basmic · 10 Sep 2007 at 22:39

Nice job there.

That's something I'd like to try. Mount my two harddrives in the three spare 5¼" drive bays I have using elastic, and plonk a 12cm fan in front of them at 5v to cool them down.

I'm just worried that if I move my tower, I'll hear one harddrive fall onto the other...clunk :eek:

...clunk

...clunkety-rattle :eek:

...!

Mr Jack · 10 Sep 2007 at 22:52

basmic said:
I'm just worried that if I move my tower, I'll hear one harddrive fall onto the other...clunk ...clunk ...clunkety-rattle ...!

Simply stretch more elastic over the back of the cages and then the hard drive won't be able to escape that way.

Danger Phoenix · 10 Sep 2007 at 23:07

I have not put elastic around the hard disks in the other direction, but I will do that when I am moving my PC back to university, to ensure they are secure in the car journey up

badbob · 10 Sep 2007 at 23:11

Isn't all that heat going through the PSU bad for the PSU lifespan?

Danger Phoenix · 10 Sep 2007 at 23:28

badbob said:
Isn't all that heat going through the PSU bad for the PSU lifespan?

The Lian-Li V1100 has been designed for good air circulation, and it does the job

The Enermax PSU has a fan at the bottom which sucks air in, and a fan at the back which blows it out. The case has air events at the bottom which basically provide the PSU with air from outside the case. I have had this PSU for 5 years now... still working perfectly (it has been in this case for 3 years).

Air from the hard drives comes out from the bottom and back.

The CPU is isolated from the PSU and HDDs and its heat is taken out by the rear 120mm fan...

All in all, at the lowest fan speeds (I even replaced the PSU fans) and under general use my overclocked Opteron 165 at 2.7Ghz is currently at 37 degrees. The hard disks range between 40 and 45 degrees.