Solved HD resonating (pics)

Borden · 20 May 2006 at 14:50

Hi all,

Since getting my gigabyte case i've had more problems with it resonating due to the design of the chasis. I'd seen pictures on the net before of people suspending their hard drives with elastic material to cut down on noise.

Yesterday i got fed up with the noise and decided to do this myself.

I used this picture for a reference on what to do (taken from Silent PC Review):

Here is my end result (sorry for wonky images, i was just sticking the camera n the case and taking a photo, didn't use the viewfinder):

I would make a guide on how to do it but i thought that the pictures are pretty self explanatory. The material used was just some sewing elastic stuff i got out of my mum's sewing box, anything elastic along those lines should do fine.

Now when i turned on the pc, i was expecting to still hear seek noises etc from the drives but i didn't hear anything at all. I had to get down and open the case to actually hear the drives doing anything, and i've got a raptor!!!!!

Anyone who has problems with noisy hard drives look no further than this, and to think that i was going to shell out £30 odd on a hdd enclosure

Borden · 20 May 2006 at 14:56

Yewen said:
Glad to see that solved your problems.

If anybody wants a guide, there are two in the sticky at the top of the main CC page.

I looked in there but couldn't find the guide, maybe i didn't look hard enough

Borden · 20 May 2006 at 15:03

Yewen said:
Ooops, the guide for your method must have been taken down.

I will have to write a new one.

(Can I re-host and use your pictures please?)

Cheers for pointing it out.

Of course

Borden · 20 May 2006 at 15:20

PinkFloyd said:
Wasn't expecting that it would stop the noise from a normal seek
Looks like I may be trying this soon (3 drives.... noise.....)

Neither was i. But when it was loading windows i couldn't hear anything. I haven't had a chance to try it much because i'm banned from my pc atm (too much gaming and not enough time spent with the family

) and i only managed to try it when my parents were out

Borden · 20 May 2006 at 15:21

Nix said:
Is it resonating noise or noise from the harddrives themselves?

That's why i was confused because i would have thought that normal seek noises would still be audible.

Borden · 20 May 2006 at 15:43

mc_bob said:
Lmao quality. I remmember being banned, parents stopped though.

MC_Bob

Thay're out atm and i'm really craving for a good game of COD2, haven't played in a week

I'm scared they'll come back and catch me then i won't be able to go on it for ages

Or i could just say i need it for my homework

Borden · 20 May 2006 at 17:12

Not using any extra fans to cool it but i've got pretty beefy panaflo's to cool the case. I'm not too worried about the temps of the drives.

Borden · 20 May 2006 at 17:54

Mikey1280 said:
Ok guys I mite give this a go sometime, I currently have a 120mm blowing over my 2 HDs

So did i, but now that air isn't blocked by the hard drive and more of it gets to the other hotter components like the graphics card