Tired of noisy hard disks?
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Noisy disks are very annoying, so I bought a couple of meters of elastic tissue stripes, and mounted the disks sot they're "floating" (thanks to a friend's suggestion). Awesome, really! No vibrations, no noise, just sweet silence. :cool: Now I have to reduce the noise of the GPU fan (I already replaced the default fan with this one[^], but it's not enough :rolleyes: )...
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Noisy disks are very annoying, so I bought a couple of meters of elastic tissue stripes, and mounted the disks sot they're "floating" (thanks to a friend's suggestion). Awesome, really! No vibrations, no noise, just sweet silence. :cool: Now I have to reduce the noise of the GPU fan (I already replaced the default fan with this one[^], but it's not enough :rolleyes: )...
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Noisy disks are very annoying, so I bought a couple of meters of elastic tissue stripes, and mounted the disks sot they're "floating" (thanks to a friend's suggestion). Awesome, really! No vibrations, no noise, just sweet silence. :cool: Now I have to reduce the noise of the GPU fan (I already replaced the default fan with this one[^], but it's not enough :rolleyes: )...
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try some of the tips from here: http://www.nvnews.net/articles/quietsli/index.shtml[^]
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Dario Solera wrote:
mounted the disks sot they're "floating" (thanks to a friend's suggestion).
Sounds interesting. Can't they overheat ?
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Rage wrote:
Can't they overheat ?
I don't think so... in my case they were mounted with plastic slides, so they were already "isolated" from the case. Anyway, if the stripes are not too much wide, I think that there should not be problems.
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try some of the tips from here: http://www.nvnews.net/articles/quietsli/index.shtml[^]
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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try some of the tips from here: http://www.nvnews.net/articles/quietsli/index.shtml[^]
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My VGA cooler is already supposed to be silent (18dB)...
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Noisy disks are very annoying, so I bought a couple of meters of elastic tissue stripes, and mounted the disks sot they're "floating" (thanks to a friend's suggestion). Awesome, really! No vibrations, no noise, just sweet silence. :cool: Now I have to reduce the noise of the GPU fan (I already replaced the default fan with this one[^], but it's not enough :rolleyes: )...
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Noise is a big issue (I have tinnitus from being around noisy computers too long) and I have to say I am very impressed with this MacBook Pro. My previous HP laptop was a noisy critter, if it had started hovering I wouldn't have been surprised. The only time I have heard the MacBook Pro emit any hardware noise is once after playing an hour of Battlefield 2142 with the laptop on a duvet (so blocking most of the airways.) Other than that it is silent.
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eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
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My VGA cooler is already supposed to be silent (18dB)...
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Dario Solera wrote:
My VGA cooler is already supposed to be silent
Then your best bet is to invest in a noise monitor and find all the noisy points on your computer, and lower them one at a time in order from loudest to quietest. :) Just like programming, improve the things that need the most improvement first. :)
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Noisy disks are very annoying, so I bought a couple of meters of elastic tissue stripes, and mounted the disks sot they're "floating" (thanks to a friend's suggestion). Awesome, really! No vibrations, no noise, just sweet silence. :cool: Now I have to reduce the noise of the GPU fan (I already replaced the default fan with this one[^], but it's not enough :rolleyes: )...
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buy a waterblock, a pump, a 120mm rad, a silent 120mm fan, and a few yards of tubing. Adding a resivoir to the setup will help with bleeding the system, so I recomend one as well, and at the point of blowing $200 already you might as well get a CPU block as well to replace that fan as well.
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buy a waterblock, a pump, a 120mm rad, a silent 120mm fan, and a few yards of tubing. Adding a resivoir to the setup will help with bleeding the system, so I recomend one as well, and at the point of blowing $200 already you might as well get a CPU block as well to replace that fan as well.
-- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.
dan neely wrote:
blowing $200 already you might as well get a CPU block as well to replace that fan as well
I spent 4.10 Euros for the stripes...
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buy a waterblock, a pump, a 120mm rad, a silent 120mm fan, and a few yards of tubing. Adding a resivoir to the setup will help with bleeding the system, so I recomend one as well, and at the point of blowing $200 already you might as well get a CPU block as well to replace that fan as well.
-- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.
Bzzzzzt! Thanks for playing, but your advice about reservoirs is absolutely wrong. Reservoir cons: - It's $20-$40 on top of your other water colling expenses - It's just another possible leak point (especially those plastic ones - don't over-tighten those fittings - You need to find room for it in your case (I have an 18-inch aluminum cude case and couldnt find a decent place for a reservoir) - It degrades the flow/pressure efficiency of your cooling loop - It provides absolutely no cooling advantages. The best fill method is a T-line. Sure, it takes a lot longer to "fill" the system, but you don't lose pressure/flow, and the end result is more important than convenience.
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Noisy disks are very annoying, so I bought a couple of meters of elastic tissue stripes, and mounted the disks sot they're "floating" (thanks to a friend's suggestion). Awesome, really! No vibrations, no noise, just sweet silence. :cool: Now I have to reduce the noise of the GPU fan (I already replaced the default fan with this one[^], but it's not enough :rolleyes: )...
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Be careful, you don't know how long they will last then there will be one loud sound as it hits the bottom of the case. There are proper hard drive mounts which will last (I have found Nexus products to be good). Elaine :rose:
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Noisy disks are very annoying, so I bought a couple of meters of elastic tissue stripes, and mounted the disks sot they're "floating" (thanks to a friend's suggestion). Awesome, really! No vibrations, no noise, just sweet silence. :cool: Now I have to reduce the noise of the GPU fan (I already replaced the default fan with this one[^], but it's not enough :rolleyes: )...
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Be careful, you don't know how long they will last then there will be one loud sound as it hits the bottom of the case. There are proper hard drive mounts which will last (I have found Nexus products to be good). Elaine :rose:
Trollslayer wrote:
you don't know how long they will last then there will be one loud sound as it hits the bottom of the case
I have 4 disks, so the biggest jump thay can do is about 1 cm... they probably wouldn't notice it, even if they're running. Anyway, the stripes are very strong (they're used for dresses, you know, skirts and the like :-O ).
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Rage wrote:
Can't they overheat ?
I don't think so... in my case they were mounted with plastic slides, so they were already "isolated" from the case. Anyway, if the stripes are not too much wide, I think that there should not be problems.
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Good thermal contact to the case can do a lot more. Some drives look specifically designed to transfer heat through the mounting screws. And all drives get smoking hot nowadays! With free air mounting, you need very good airflow aorund them. Zhe idea is cute, though :) For my mid-range graphics card, I paid ca. €25 extra for passive cooling. Good investment.
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Dario Solera wrote:
mounted the disks sot they're "floating" (thanks to a friend's suggestion).
Sounds interesting. Can't they overheat ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
If you are depending on thermal conduction to the case to cool your drives, you are already in trouble. In an external eSATA/Firewire/USB case, yeah, conduction is an issue for drive cooling. Inside a computer case, the air-flow is 'supposed' to be taking care of heat build-up. There are a few notable exceptions to that (laptops being huge here when I worked on them), but I can see using this solution to drive noise. Rubber grommets would also work. The US Navy uses much the same thing to reduce noise conduction in submarines ans some of the modern surface ships and what they work with is a heck of a lot bigger. I know! Submarine main engine turbines in nuclear submarines are huge. In the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines, everything down to the smallest motor/pump is mounted on rubber stand-offs from what I heard.
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