Samsung F3 1tb resonating humming noise

[Bryf50]

I just got a pair of Samsung F3s to put in raid 0. After installing them I noticed this extremely irritating noise happening in ~1 second intervals. It's very deep but quiet sort of like Wommmm........Wommmm......Wommmm. So after some browsing around I see that this is a common problem for the F3s and is likely due to the drives resonating with the case or from having multiple hard drives spinning at slightly different rpms. Anyone else have this problem and figure out a way to quiet it down? I'm trying to concoct some rubber band mounts for the drive but it doesn't seem effective.

 

[Voo]

The rubber is a good idea, but not the way you're doing right now

Just put a piece of rubber between the drives and the case so they're not directly connected. There are lots of commercial solutions from the quiet PC crowd, but that's basically the simplest solution.

 

[Zap]

likely due to the drives resonating with the case or from having multiple hard drives spinning at slightly different rpms.

This is the likely culprit. Easy thing to try... put your hands on the two side panels of the case. Does the noise go away or become attenuated? If so, then you may be able to just glue something to the inside of your side panels to dampen the noise. Otherwise, your solution is to decouple the drives from the chassis, as in making sure the metal of the drive doesn't touch the metal of the case even through the screws.

Note that this "problem" isn't limited to only Samsung drives.

 

[Bryf50]

Hard Drive Suspension System 2.0

 

[exdeath]

I've encountered this with every Raptor and Cheetah drive since the first generation 18 GB Cheetah. It's just the vibrations of two identical drives beating against each other and aliasing. The waves arriving slightly out of phase at different times from two different locations to the point in the case giving off the noise.

Try removing power to one drive and powering on, problem will likely go away or be significantly reduced.

If there was something wrong with the hard drive, like an out of balance spindle, the drive wouldn't even work due to the tight tolerence and precision inherent to proper operation.