Quieting hard drives

[Granorense]

In my efforts to make my system silent, all the noise left from my computer comes from two 80 GB Western Digital hard drives. Has anybody used enclosures or have tried a product to quiet down hard drives in a safe manner?

Thank you
Grano

 

[InlineFive]

Silent PC Review is exactly what you have been looking for. They have tons of information on quieting PCs, including hard drive enclosure reviews and much, much more!

 

[Granorense]

Thanks PorBleemo. They have lots of nice stuff there!

 

[Peter D]

Tip #1: Buy Seagates!

 

[ReiAyanami]

no, don't buy a seagate, all you have to do is modify your hd into a seagate. involves buying some scrap metal, firmware updates, and a carnivorous fish

 

[JimRaynor]

yeah if you want a silent system start with the seagates

 

[Granorense]

Not when you have a running system with two 80 GB hard drives for which you paid good $$$. I want to make my RAID sytem quieter using what I got, Western Digital hard drives. Perhaps next time I would consider a different brand.

 

[Bookie]

step 1: buy Seagates. They cost less and are much quieter.
step 2: sell you Western digitals to people on ebay who don't know any better (like you before reading the responses to your post).

After trying seagates, I slowly bought and sold my entire collection of drives till there were no seagates in any of my systems anymore.

 

[Granorense]

Originally posted by: Bookie
step 1: buy Seagates. They cost less and are much quieter.
step 2: sell you Western digitals to people on ebay who don't know any better (like you before reading the responses to your post).

After trying seagates, I slowly bought and sold my entire collection of drives till there were no seagates in any of my systems anymore.

Bookie, I wasn't asking for brands of hard drives if you read my post. All I wanted was people's expirience with any type of enclosures that I could use to quiete down my hard drives. Believe me, I know about Seagates, I have plenty of those dead in my junk room. I am just happen to like Western Digital, that's why I got them.