MOD Talk Methods to Silence your HDD

THIS WAS NOT MY IDEA!

i found this during my daily peruse. but if youre going for a quieter machine and youve got some HDD chatter ( and cant afford SSD ) this might be something worth while.

www.silentpcreview.com/article8-page2.html

This definitely falls under the budget modders section lol.

WHY? would you need this?

On some cheaper cases the HDD cages can rattle quite a bit.

For my last couple of cases I built my own HDD mounts. Basically I used 2 Aluminum L plates with some holes drilled in them for the drives. To "Decouple" the drives from the case I over-sized the holes ans used rubber plugs that have a threaded brass insert that matches the screw thread on the HDD. I'll get some pics, and the technical name for the rubber thingys and post them... I want to say they were like $0.35 each US. They work really well for noise and double a shock mounts (my cases seem to like to Roll around or travel allot.


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THAT'S AWESOME!!!! hahahaha

Read a similar article earlier, actually linking to that one. I've been thinking about this for a while but I grow worrisome of heat getting trapped if you try sandwiching it.

Probably only necessary to worry about if it's a high speed drive, but if there's anything I can do to keep my drive from failing...

well, with sandwiching id think that youd really be forced to use aluminum or copper for thier heat xfer.

technobear wrote:

well, with sandwiching id think that youd really be forced to use aluminum or copper for thier heat xfer.

No doubt. I won a fancy little Vizo Orbiter at my first lan with LanOC. Works like a champ!