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Hard Drive noise damping
NickG:
Hey guys I likey this conversation. Whom here has tried any sort of rubber band suspension on your drives.. I am trying to go silent with an evaporative water cooled rig and have recently noticed my drive noise because my fan noise no longer obfuscates it. I am wondering which materials you guys have tried. I have seen the rubber standoffs on the case modding sites, but I have heard that suspension is more effective. regular rubber bands or elastic bands seem kind of ghetto so I was wondering if any of you have something more industrial/elaborate.
patrickl:
--- Quote from: NickG on May 15, 2008, 09:59:34 pm ---regular rubber bands or elastic bands seem kind of ghetto so I was wondering if any of you have something more industrial/elaborate.
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I haven't used these myself, but earlier I linked to a review of the NoVibes III HDD Decoupling Rack
BTW if you are afraid of your disk running hot, then the decoupling method is probably not a good idea. The disk then has no way to transfer it's heat to the case.
Minwah:
--- Quote from: patrickl on May 15, 2008, 10:11:07 am ---or maybe while moving the cabinet you damaged the disk :P
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Unlikely as my PC board is removable, so it was moved seperately to the cabinet itself. It did have a short car ride, but sat nicely on my back seat :)
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: patrickl on May 15, 2008, 08:13:50 pm ---
--- Quote ---You assume that Google results are fact.
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Well I do take their word over yours yes.
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:cheers:
--- Quote from: NickG on May 15, 2008, 09:59:34 pm ---regular rubber bands or elastic bands seem kind of ghetto so I was wondering if any of you have something more industrial/elaborate.
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Rubber bands, like office type rubber bands? Don't use regular rubber bands under any circumstances. They'll disintegrate or turn to goo regardless of environmental conditions. I have reservations about using any sort of rubber type product to suspend a hard drive. The cloth wound elastics seem to be a good compromise, if the rubber fails (which it is bound to do over time), the cloth will retain the drive until the bands are replaced.
I like to build things and forget about them. So rubber based products typically aren't a part of anything I construct unless they're absolutely necessary and I expect to replace them at some point. Of course, with a HDD, which will come first? Failure of the rubber or the drive? :P
What about silicon straps like what's offered on sites like this? With the abundance of those silicon bracelets, I imagine someone could fashion something nice up. What's silicon's life expectency?
Xiaou2:
So, you take a Corporation's word over a guy who isnt trying to sell you
anything? Whats my motivation? To make you buy a fan?! Get real.
You say that you never said fact at first... but then at the end, you invert that,
and claim fact. You even use those 'so called' Facts in your argument. However,
since you can not prove ANY of those as TRUE FACTS.. you have NO argument...
Only OPINIONS based on what someone told you.
And finally... You admit heat does effect life expectancies... yet, it would appear that
you do not care about life expectancies of the drive. Life expecancy = Time till cease of
operation or FAILURE.
Weather or not many drives fail for other reasons is irrelevant. The argument was about
prolonging a drives life.
Its my belief based on my experiences of at least 4 drives failing - all of them were
drives mounted above another drive and were scorching hot. The odds being mere coincidences are fairly high IMOP. As said, you believe whatever you want.. But claiming
Fact on unverified/unproven data is something you can not do justly.
Ohh, and as for the comment on credibility... Ive already emailed Kev. He can verify
that info at any time... and so could anyone else. I loaned Dave Jones my laser printer
for the Rochester gameroom show. I also was roped into directing parking of cars for
the 1st hour or so of the show.
Want a post of my Namco paystub too while were at it? As stated before, I have more
credibility that you ever will.
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