HDD vibration dampening

[RandomBadger]

Good'ay folks,

I have a Corsair 540 and im using 2x WD 1tb blacks in each hot-swap bay, My pc is virtually silent until the HDD spin up, guessing the noise is from vibrations.

Does anyone know a cheap fix for this? I have little sticky rubber patches lying around would they work? or would a thin piece of foam be better? Any advice would be fantabbydosey.

 

[ShaunB-91]

Good'ay folks,

I have a Corsair 540 and im using 2x WD 1tb blacks in each hot-swap bay, My pc is virtually silent until the HDD spin up, guessing the noise is from vibrations.

Does anyone know a cheap fix for this? I have little sticky rubber patches lying around would they work? or would a thin piece of foam be better? Any advice would be fantabbydosey.

I would imagine a bit of foam would be better. I'm not sure where you can buy this from. I would imagine if your buying the PC specific stuff it would come as a pack so might cost a bit but there must be somewhere that sells it for you to cut to size or even already cut to meet your needs.

Do the HDD cages not already have rubber grommet things on them?

 

[RandomBadger]

I would imagine a bit of foam would be better. I'm not sure where you can buy this from. I would imagine if your buying the PC specific stuff it would come as a pack so might cost a bit but there must be somewhere that sells it for you to cut to size or even already cut to meet your needs.

Do the HDD cages not already have rubber grommet things on them?

I already have a piece of foam type stuff that comes with a sticky side, I could cut that into correct lengths but its only about 3-5mm thick so not sure if it would be thick/thin enough and as it sticks I don't want to use it for it not to work and leave sticky marks.

I don't think the HDD cages come with padding but tbh ive not even checked lol I may have a look in a min.

If any other 540 owners had this problem and found a solution?

 

[ShaunB-91]

I already have a piece of foam type stuff that comes with a sticky side, I could cut that into correct lengths but its only about 3-5mm thick so not sure if it would be thick/thin enough and as it sticks I don't want to use it for it not to work and leave sticky marks.

I don't think the HDD cages come with padding but tbh ive not even checked lol I may have a look in a min.

If any other 540 owners had this problem and found a solution?

If you are willing to cut it, just leave the sticky tape on and put it in place to see if it works before you stick it down?

Is it deffo the HDD creating the noise? Any chances you could grab hold of it whilst its working, just push downwards for example and it should go quiet then?

 

[RandomBadger]

If you are willing to cut it, just leave the sticky tape on and put it in place to see if it works before you stick it down?

Is it deffo the HDD creating the noise? Any chances you could grab hold of it whilst its working, just push downwards for example and it should go quiet then?

Im pretty sure its my HDD as my OS is running off a SSD but all my media, games and some programs run from the HDD. After 20 mins of not being used they stop spinning but hwne for example I put music on I hear them spin up and then the buzz begins.

Yeah I was just thinking that, I will try that see if it works but before that I will try push them down gently see if it has an effect.

I gotta open her up soon anyway and take out all cables as im getting some sleeved cables by the end of the week.

 

[ShaunB-91]

Im pretty sure its my HDD as my OS is running off a SSD but all my media, games and some programs run from the HDD. After 20 mins of not being used they stop spinning but hwne for example I put music on I hear them spin up and then the buzz begins.

Yeah I was just thinking that, I will try that see if it works but before that I will try push them down gently see if it has an effect.

I gotta open her up soon anyway and take out all cables as im getting some sleeved cables by the end of the week.

It does sound like its the HDD then, for it to go quite then spin up you must have it set to sleep after 20mins in your Windows power settings. You'll have to see if some foam with the tape still on does the trick.

I would of thought the cage has some sort of rubber pads on though with it being new.