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paigeoliver:

Unless you are going for a FULL installation with all the CHD games you can actually just run the whole system off a compact flash card and have no hard drive at all. Combine with one of those fanless slimline PCs and the whole thing could be silent.

northerngames:

cut piece's off your old blank cd dvd media top rubber/foam ring that is on the top to hold the disk from moving up and down and drill a hole through the center after cutting them in a sqaure shape or something.

yeah my dvd drive sounds like a baffled/muffled router when it gets going with a disk left in lol.

Minwah:


--- Quote from: RayB on May 12, 2008, 11:12:42 am ---I'm very surprised that a hard drive could be that noisey. ... It's louder than your CPU fan??

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Most of the CPU fan noise is cut out when all the doors are on/closed, and it is not too noticable. The HDD noise is fine most of the time too, but when particularly busy the 'churning' sound seems really loud...it definately sounds to me as if the noise is being transferred through the cabinet sides, amplifying it.

Minwah:


--- Quote from: GinsuVictim on May 12, 2008, 11:42:54 am ---One thing to make sure of is if you have a CD or DVD drive, take any discs out. When I forget and leave one in, I'm reminded VERY quickly to take it out.

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Yes I know what you mean. I don't have a CD/DVD drive in my cabinet tho.


--- Quote from: paigeoliver on May 12, 2008, 11:25:48 pm ---Unless you are going for a FULL installation with all the CHD games you can actually just run the whole system off a compact flash card and have no hard drive at all. Combine with one of those fanless slimline PCs and the whole thing could be silent.

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I like the idea of this in theory, but last time I looked there wasn't a CF card big enough for my needs.  I think in a bartop or something I would definately consider this.

Minwah:

Thanks for all the suggestions...at the moment my drive is mounted vertically, I might have a go at suspending it horizontally as in some of those articles.

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