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Quieting down my 74G Raptor

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Originally posted by: oldfart
Drag, thanks for the comments. My reason for using the Zalman was not so much to do with cooling. It was for quietness. There have been comments one way or another about the effect on cooling using this setup. No one has posted a temp of their Raptor besides myself, so it is difficult to say how each method affects temp.

Since silence is my primary concern, I dont use any more fans than I have to. Many people over do it with fans and cooling. If my drive is working fine @ 35C with no fans, thats is great.

I agreer about the heatpipe. It keeps it as cool as directly mounted to the case, and that is good enough for me.
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Your temperatures are easily within tolerances- 30-35C is the "ideal" range for most home-user drives. Recently I was working on an HP server that had two 10,000rpm SCSI drives- the only case fan in the system was at the back of the case. Because of the large holes in the front, the drives were supplied with enough air to keep them warm to the touch, but nowhere near hot.

I agree that silence is golden though; although I have to crank the fans in my case up a bit when gaming, most of the time they're dialed back down to 1400rpm, and that's quiet enough for me 🙂

You may be interested in these readings, which are from Storage Review on the 74Gb Raptors.

"Despite the slightly swifter seeks, the final WD740GD generates an amount of heat similar to the pre-release sample and rests somewhere between the hottest 7200 RPM ATA drives and the coolest 4-platter, 10K RPM SCSI disks."
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Well my little 4200rpm laptop harddrive is currently whirring away at 43 degrees celcius. So 35 on a quiet 10,000 rpm harddrive setup seems pretty impressive right now.

To bad my WD desktop drives don't have a temp sensor.
 
My 74gb raptor sounds like a team of ball bearings trying to win the hardware olympics. Is that normal? My 36gb raptor wasn't nearly as noisy as this one. 🙁
 
The suspended rubber isolated mounting of the Zalman eliminated the "coffee can full of marbles" noise as well as the vibration through the case for me. Huge difference all around.
 
I guess what I'm asking is:

I have no way to compare my 74gb raptor to others, is the "spinning marbles sound" normal, or should I try for another one in hopes that it's quieter? Like I said my 36gb didn't sound anything like this, it was much quieter...
 
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