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OfflineBrAiN
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noisy hard drives
    #5453525 - 03/28/06 11:04 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

My computer is rather loud. I like to have my music playin' when I go to bed, but the noise gets annoying from the box. It sounded like an airplane taking off.

For the longest time I thought my cpu fan was to blame. When I cracked it open I could definately hear some nosie from it.

I finally replaced it with a 20DB fan and there's definately a difference, but it turns out what I was hearing was a combination of two noises. My HARD DRIVE (Western Digital 1200 (120GB)) was the one making the most annoying of the two noises.

Anyone else had this problem with Western Digitals? Anyone have a hard drive they can stand by as being super quiet? Something preferable fast, but I don't really need a lot fo space as I back most of my work up... maybe 80 gigs minimum. 120 has turned out to be more than I really need.


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Re: noisy hard drives [Re: BrAiN]
    #5453895 - 03/29/06 03:02 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

There are things you can do to quiet your hard-drive. Some people suspend the drive in mid-air in an optical drive bay using string (tie it in place) - that massively cuts down on the amount of vibration that's passed onto the case, and therefor the noise that you hear.(Something like *this* perhaps.)

Or, you could buy a hard drive caddy designed to cut down on noise (*here* perhaps).


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Re: noisy hard drives [Re: BrAiN]
    #5456338 - 03/29/06 06:36 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

seagate makes very quiet drives. they may as well be silent. it's the only brand i buy for this very reason.


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Re: noisy hard drives [Re: wilshire]
    #5456473 - 03/29/06 06:59 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

i recently got an additional seagate drive and subsequently a hard drive cooler with rubber mounts. i put my existing western digital drive in the cooler and the noise levels have dropped dramatically.


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Re: noisy hard drives [Re: debianlinux]
    #5457654 - 03/29/06 11:08 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

cooler?


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Re: noisy hard drives [Re: BrAiN]
    #5457988 - 03/30/06 01:16 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

usually when hard drives get loud...they are about to fail. i would back up all your important data asap.


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