Noisy Hard Drives

[Terrifictez85]

I have just built a mid range gaming rig and the only issue i am having is noise from my hdd's. They are the loudest thing in my case. Ant tips for silencing them? They appear to wrok fine,

 

[sheroo]

You need to try and isolate the vibrations so that they don't reverberate in your case. What case have you got? How many drives? How have you installed them?

 

[daantjuh44]

I am using a silentmaxx hd- silencer rev B.

It's almost completely silent now, I can only hear it spinning up.

My hdd was rumbling terribly before.

 

[Terrifictez85]

I am using a Thermaltake Element S and have used the included rubber sliencing mounts. Am using 3 seagate 500gb in Raid 0 But they are evenly spaced

 

[Terrifictez85]

Just noticed how rubbish my typing is lol

 

[sheroo]

Just had a look at the way those hdd's mount into the hdd rack, and there doesn't appear to be that much dampening going on. I have used elastic in the past to mount hdd's. It just depends on how annoying they are to you and how much effort you want to put into silencing them?

 

[Terrifictez85]

I am actually thinking that it is developing a fault as one of them spins too fast. Will run some stress tests and try to determine whether one is faulty. Then next step is buying a quiter cpu cooler. Asus "Silent" Knight II is not that silent

 

[sheroo]

It's funny alot of the products that have "silent" on the box aren't that silent. Noctua & Thermalright make some good coolers.

 

[BaMb1N0]

I am using a Thermaltake Element S and have used the included rubber sliencing mounts. Am using 3 seagate 500gb in Raid 0 But they are evenly spaced

i made the same expierience lately using 4x 500gb seagate barracuda 7200.10 in raid 0 (case: Corsair Obsidian 650D). the amount of vibriation the disks gave off to the case was just horrible. that's one of the reasons i do not use disks in my main rig anymore.

most funny thing is that those vibrations are not present when i use a 10000rpm WD Velociraptor.

finally, i heard a lot of good things about the sharkoon vibe-fixer. i may try this myself sometime, if i got any harddrive left then...

 

[KyleBikes1]

You could use this sort of option if you wanted too > http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=40&products_id=11025

I've never used it so i cant tell you what its like..but i guess its worth a shot if there that noisy :/