750D hdd vibration.

Armadillo · 26 Jun 2017 at 21:18

I have a Corsair 750D airflow, I've been fighting with an annoying hdd buzz for ages now.

I know it's the hdd, as when it spins down, the noise stops. The culprit seems to be the bottom hdd. You can see in this picture

http://imgur.com/a/Wrg4y

(I'm aware it needs dusting

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Pushing on the metal bar with the red mark on it, stops the noise, pushing the hdd itself also stops the noise, the annoying noise will eventually return. I tried to put some rubber shims where the blue mark is as that puts pressure on that centre bar and while it did stop the noise, it just comes back eventually as well, until you play with the rubber shim and repeat

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Theres a small amount of room between the hdd itself and the metal bar, at the moment I don't have anything that can fit, but think maybe buy some sort of foam/rubber and stuff it in there. Not sure if that will work.

The hdds just sit in little plastic tray things, then slide into the cage. I've checked they are all in properly. And the other two are fine, it's just that one that constantly does it and it's getting annoying to have to keep taking the front panel off just to poke it.

So yeah, any ideas or anyone else dealt with this on this case.

Thanks.

foster grant · 27 Jun 2017 at 00:39

Hmm I have a 750D but so far no issues with any vibrating ,although I did remove the HDD cage as i mostly use SSDs and have only one HDD, I did keep the little trays the the hard drives screw onto though and I use those with blue tack

Armadillo · 3 Jul 2017 at 02:59

I have 3 mech and 1 ssd, so need at least one cage.

I sort of bodged it and managed to kinda stuff two pieces of the rubber pads I have between the lower hdd itself and the metal cage, to put a little pressure on the hdd and so far it seems to have worked :confused:

. Don't want to call it fixed as I just sort of stuffed them in there, but seems good so far.

Pulseammo · 4 Jul 2017 at 16:58

I had the exact same problem with the 540 air which I think uses the same plastic caddies. The HDD vibrated and so I folded up a piece of paper to reduce the play between the plastic caddy and the metal of the case - that works for a while and then it starts vibrating at random.

In the end I bought a WD Red 5400rpm drive and it's vastly more quiet than my old one, however even this one does it sometimes, you just poke the drive or the caddy and the noise goes away - highly annoying

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The odd thing is my 7200rpm samsung f3 in the other slot doesn't do it, although that drive has more vibration in general, so I think it's something to do with the slot that the caddy sits in.

Very helpful post, I know ;P, but I think you're on the right track, just keep stuffing stuff between the caddy and the case until the vibration is dampened.

Armadillo · 5 Jul 2017 at 15:24

Pulseammo said:
In the end I bought a WD Red 5400rpm drive and it's vastly more quiet than my old one, however even this one does it sometimes, you just poke the drive or the caddy and the noise goes away - highly annoying .

The odd thing is my 7200rpm samsung f3 in the other slot doesn't do it, although that drive has more vibration in general, so I think it's something to do with the slot that the caddy sits in.

So far all quiet here still. Now you mention drive speed, the funny thing is, it's a 5400rpm drive that is doing it here as well. The cage has two wd green 2tb which are 5400rpm and a 1tb blue 7200rpm. Far as I can tell, it's only the green in the lower slot that does it :confused:

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Pulseammo · 5 Jul 2017 at 21:01

Armadillo said:
So far all quiet here still. Now you mention drive speed, the funny thing is, it's a 5400rpm drive that is doing it here as well. The cage has two wd green 2tb which are 5400rpm and a 1tb blue 7200rpm. Far as I can tell, it's only the green in the lower slot that does it .

Before I changed to the wd red I had some ancient seagate 7200rpm on that slot, it vibrated the case and just made more noise in general so I'm reasonably convinced it's to do with that slot on the case rather than drive characteristics.

Armadillo · 15 Jul 2017 at 04:25

Aww, it came back. Feels like the rubber moved slightly as it's not a good fit. Going to order some 1mm, 1.5mm and 6mm, cheap enough, with what I already have can hopefully get some combo that is a nice tight fit and shim it properly. Can't keep popping the front off, it's easy enough, but annoying.

Really starting to hate tool free installs. Had to fight with my cm690ii to stop noise from them and now this. I don't remember having so much trouble with screwed in drives. £100+ case, still got to mess around and bodge stuff to get silence.

Tealc · 15 Jul 2017 at 09:54

I just bought some bungee cord and suspended my hard drives. This was 6 years ago now. No longer have the vibration transferring from my drives to my case.

There is a sticky post from 6 years ago showing how it is don but the images don't work.

EsaT · 15 Jul 2017 at 14:49

Armadillo said:
Really starting to hate tool free installs. Had to fight with my cm690ii to stop noise from them and now this. I don't remember having so much trouble with screwed in drives. £100+ case, still got to mess around and bodge stuff to get silence.

I call them IQ free install.
Any separate especially light parts clsoe to HDDs are bad for acoustics because if there's any loose they can start vibrating.

But as usual fashion and sense have nothing in common.

Pulseammo · 15 Jul 2017 at 22:54

Armadillo said:
Aww, it came back. Feels like the rubber moved slightly as it's not a good fit. Going to order some 1mm, 1.5mm and 6mm, cheap enough, with what I already have can hopefully get some combo that is a nice tight fit and shim it properly. Can't keep popping the front off, it's easy enough, but annoying.

Really starting to hate tool free installs. Had to fight with my cm690ii to stop noise from them and now this. I don't remember having so much trouble with screwed in drives. £100+ case, still got to mess around and bodge stuff to get silence.

Indeed, while the trays hold the drive and have those wee rubber pieces they are completely useless when it's the whole tray vibrating, and that just vibrates the other panels of the case! My 540 is the second case I've ever owned, my GlobalWin 802 did a solid 15 years or so service, but I must say the build quality of the Corsair is trash compared to the 802 - they don't build them solid like they used to it seems.