RSSNix noisey hard drives with elastic
Here's a crafty solution to noisy hard disks: suspend it with elastic! Jason @ HACKS tipped us off to this silencing technique. From Silent PC Review:
Jason adds:As the pictures show, the drive is essentially suspended on the stretched elastic. The resilience of the elastic stops all vibrations from passing from the drive to the case -- or vice versa, for that matter. The drive cage was rigged it up with two Barracuda drives (20G & 40G) and installed with a couple of machine screws at the bottom of my main PC with a decoupled low power 80mm fan in front of it (at the front panel intake hole).
Keep in mind that you'll loose some of the conductive cooling that you get when the drive is mounted to the case, so it'd be smart to do this in cases where there is decent airflow or find a way to attach some sort of heatsink to the bungeed drive.
Posted by Becky Stern |
Apr 11, 2008 12:00 PM
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| Posted by: Sean on April 11, 2008 at 1:00 PM |
The original poster stole this from here:
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article8-page2.html
| Posted by: davemurphy.myopenid.com on April 11, 2008 at 3:15 PM |
In drier climates the elastic can dry out over time and become stiff and brittle resulting in failure - check those cords every few months.
| Posted by: Kimmo Kulovesi on April 11, 2008 at 3:16 PM |
Note that the drives probably should be grounded to the computer's case to avoid build-up of static electricity from the spinning drives. Just run a bit of wire from a screw-hole in each drive to a bare metal part of the chassis to be safe.
| Posted by: Bob Darlington on April 11, 2008 at 5:39 PM |
Just an FYI but those spinning disks cannot in any way build up a static charge on the outside of the hard drive.
Aside from that, the drives are grounded via the power and signal cables.
-Bob
| Posted by: MadScott on April 13, 2008 at 5:03 PM |
Elastic suspensions like this are good for high-frequency vibrations, but convert the drives to a very low resonant frequency spring-mass system. Be sure that the drives are secured before transporting them any distance (wedges of styrofoam will do).
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