Hard drive silencers

[scrawnypaleguy]

I'm looking to silence the last thing in my case that makes any noise -- my hard drive. I don't want to do any sort of homemade suspension thingy, I just want something that I can buy that will silence my diamondmax10, it's making a huge racket hard-mounted to my case. Any recomendations?

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Well, here are a bunch of them. I personally like these, and have 6 or so in my system, and I've never had a problem with them.
Tas.

 

[JBDan]

http://www.nexustek.nl/driveaway.htm
Pricey, but niSe!

 

[Operandi]

A drive enclosure probably isn't necessary, soft mounting the drives makes a pretty big difference. You can get soft HD mounts in this Nexus kit along with a bunch of other things you may or may not need. They look exactly the same as the E-A-R mounts that I and many others have used successfully so I'm assuming they are.

 

[scrawnypaleguy]

Those look like just what i'm looking for, where can i get them?

 

[imported_Kensai]

I like the Zalman ones.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: scrawnypaleguy
Those look like just what i'm looking for, where can i get them?

To which ones are you referring to?
Tas.

 

[scrawnypaleguy]

The rubber E.A.R. mounts. If I can't find them though, the zalman looks good too.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Still looking for the EAR mounts, but I did find this. Do you need these installed in a 3.5" or 5.25" bay?
Tas.

 

[scrawnypaleguy]

3.5 preferably, but I have two spare 5.25 bays if I need the Zalman one. I'm not sure if I would trust the cooling ability of those Disktwins, since my hard drive won't have any airflow in a 5.25 bay.

 

[Lazien]

I went to Lowe's and bought some soft rubber washers (50 cents) and stuck them between My harddrive and the case mount then screwed it down.....I have no problems with vibration noise but the motor spin is another story. That's about as cheap as it gets there

 

[Greg04]

I used double sided mounting foam tape. Peeled a tiny section on one side and they stuck to HD. The coating offered enough lube to slide in with no problem. Reduced noise in my Dell 4700 90%.

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

One of the guys that post here, that has put together many PCs, turned me on to these
vibration damping grommets, hi-damp PVC, ID Ribbed, .158" hole dia.,.057" groove.
$8.49 for a pack of 25. At www.mcmaster.com/ #9311k138. These are the smallest ID ones they have.

Difficulties: I had to locate and order longer screws and tiny fender washers.
Since i could not locate mounting screws with a shoulder as EAR uses and my case is 2mm thick. I will use very thin vinal tubing to go over the screw to fill a slight excess of clearance and provide a lite duty shoulder for the screw to stop on when installing. To prevent the screws from loosening, a very sparing amount of Blue Loc-Tite will be used on the threads. W/O a primer Loc-Tite sets-up in 24hours. A good screw driver will be able to remove them in the future. The Loc-Tite and vinal tubing I allready had. All threads must be oil free and dry, prior to using Loc-Tite.

I have allready notched the mounting slots with a small rat-tail file to accept the grommets where I want them. I have two old Lian-Li cases, to mod and more time than money. This is why I'm going to all this effort. The EARs are very nice indeed but the price is too dear for opticals and HDs in two cases.

Reseaching rubber mounting HDs, I came across a recomendation to ground the drives to prevent a static charge from building up on it's enclosure. It was at SPCR or 7Volt. This I will do as its not a biggie.

Just felt like posting.



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