Does the akasa eclipse come with h/d mounting grommets?

pieman109 · 4 Nov 2006 at 16:29

As title. I'm looking at getting one of these and was wondering if they come with those rubber grommets to mount the harddrive to keep the noise levels down.

mattup · 4 Nov 2006 at 16:40

No it does not. My raptor was very noisy until I bought a silentmax enclosure.

Don't let it put you off, its a very good case.

Works really well with the zalman you have.

Matt

LanceCrossfire · 4 Nov 2006 at 16:48

best case i ever bought IMO

ubern00b · 4 Nov 2006 at 18:12

Agree with the above statement. Got a mirage and its the most awesome case ever

VeNT · 5 Nov 2006 at 10:47

ubern00b said:
Agree with the above statement. Got a mirage and its the most awesome case ever

I ordered the eclipse and got the mirage!

Yewen · 5 Nov 2006 at 12:03

VeNT said:
I ordered the eclipse and got the mirage!

Thats actually a good thing if you do not mind the front, as it is a much more exclusive case, mainly because its the same as the Eclipse but costs more.

VeNT · 5 Nov 2006 at 14:29

yeah, I like the front better tbh. although it was a suprise.

ubern00b · 5 Nov 2006 at 14:35

They say the mirage looks like a 1980's file server, but to be honest its just quite minamilistic which suits me down to the ground. Matches all my other kit too kinda

http://www.ubern00b.net/downloads/pcsetup/CIMG0007.jpg

VeNT · 5 Nov 2006 at 15:16

only thing I don't like is that all that air thoughput causes dust to gather on the CD plate bit, behind the door at the bottom, if I have the door closed.

Mark A · 5 Nov 2006 at 16:04

ubern00b said:
They say the mirage looks like a 1980's file server, but to be honest its just quite minamilistic which suits me down to the ground. Matches all my other kit too kinda

http://www.ubern00b.net/downloads/pcsetup/CIMG0007.jpg

That looks very nice

, hmm i think i like that better than my eclipse front.

VeNT · 5 Nov 2006 at 23:54

the door has magnets in it aswell, so it keeps closed. I like the look, the button works with door open and closed wich is nice. only issue is if the CD Rom drive tries to open when the door is shut it may not be able to push it open.

Dreamcaster · 6 Nov 2006 at 23:25

pieman109 said:
As title. I'm looking at getting one of these and was wondering if they come with those rubber grommets to mount the harddrive to keep the noise levels down.

Just pick up some rubber grommets from the net, thats what i did. Drive is now silent

Flanno · 7 Nov 2006 at 01:04

How do you fit these grommets inside the drive cage. When you slide the hard drive into the 3.5" bay it is flush against the insides of the cage so I can't see how you would squeeze some grommets in there, unless you are just putting grommets on the outside between the screws and the drive cage (but the drive is still making contact with the cage on the inside). Only other thing I can think of is using some very large grommetss on the large holes on the outside of the cage.

WJA96 · 7 Nov 2006 at 06:21

If you buy a bicycle inner tube (or use one that one you had the snake-bite puncture on when you landed the triple at Alp Duez) and cut 8 1cm squares out of it. Make a small hole in the middle of each. Now cellotape one of them over each of the 4 holes on the HDD. Force the HDD into the cage (it will be quite a tight fit). Now place another 1cm rubber square over the HDD screw (use the long ones) and screw it in. It will easily penetrate the cellotape and after a few moments exertion you will have an isolated HDD for a few pennies. Someone else suggested the inner tube, I doubled up on the number of 1cm pieces used, to be sure, to be sure

Flanno · 7 Nov 2006 at 12:55

Thanks.
Will give it a go

Sounds messy though. I am a neatness freak.

WJA96 · 7 Nov 2006 at 20:09

Flanno said:
Sounds messy though. I am a neatness freak.

Then possibly the ancient Scottish art of 'bodging it on the cheap' isn't for you

Flanno · 7 Nov 2006 at 20:35

I guess not.
Any thoughts on the new Aurora I posted about below ?

Dreamcaster · 7 Nov 2006 at 22:37

Flanno said:
How do you fit these grommets inside the drive cage. When you slide the hard drive into the 3.5" bay it is flush against the insides of the cage so I can't see how you would squeeze some grommets in there, unless you are just putting grommets on the outside between the screws and the drive cage (but the drive is still making contact with the cage on the inside). Only other thing I can think of is using some very large grommetss on the large holes on the outside of the cage.

I'm putting them in the holes that are above. They fit perfect.