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Had a similar experience with a JBOD chassis. The vibrations of the spinning drives caused resonance on some positions. The cure was to attach a patch of duct t

Had a similar experience with a JBOD chassis. The vibrations of the spinning drives caused resonance on some positions. The cure was to attach a patch of duct tape with a washer at a certain point on the chassis.

iforgotpassword 7y ago
Heh I remember in the late 90s I put some rubber between the hdds and case to greatly reduce the noise of my desktop PC.
- the-dude 7y ago
  I have seen rubber 'sleeves' for hdds
  - java-man 7y ago
    I don't understand why this isn't a standard practice.
    - mnw21cam 7y ago
      That sounds like a really easy way to make a hard drive overheat. Way back, I had a 4GB SCSI hard drive that was extra tall, extra fast, extra noisy, and extra hot. I constructed a thick rubber box around it to try noise-proof it a little, but I also had to strap a CPU cooler to it and have the airflow enter the box and exit at a hole in the box after wrapping all the way round the hard drive. It worked. But just wrapping it in rubber would have been a very quick way to cook the drive. This is a drive that if just left running bare on a table would get too hot to touch. Hard drives produce a heck of a lot less heat these days.
      - java-man 7y ago
        An elastic mount does not have to be a suffocating box. Plus, and I could be wrong here - the mounts are not really designed to be heat conductors (the rails are plastic on my high end Dell workstation); I suppose the heat is extracted via air flow.
- mcv 7y ago
  My previous PC had the option of inserting harddisks in rubber bands instead of screwing them to the frame. It was a case specifically aimed at noise reduction (the Antec Solo).
toolslive 7y ago
This is a classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4
- aortega 7y ago
  And a evolution of that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntw32kYDryM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntw32kYDryM

iforgotpassword 7y ago

Heh I remember in the late 90s I put some rubber between the hdds and case to greatly reduce the noise of my desktop PC.

the-dude 7y ago
I have seen rubber 'sleeves' for hdds
- java-man 7y ago
  I don't understand why this isn't a standard practice.
  - mnw21cam 7y ago
    That sounds like a really easy way to make a hard drive overheat. Way back, I had a 4GB SCSI hard drive that was extra tall, extra fast, extra noisy, and extra hot. I constructed a thick rubber box around it to try noise-proof it a little, but I also had to strap a CPU cooler to it and have the airflow enter the box and exit at a hole in the box after wrapping all the way round the hard drive. It worked. But just wrapping it in rubber would have been a very quick way to cook the drive. This is a drive that if just left running bare on a table would get too hot to touch. Hard drives produce a heck of a lot less heat these days.
    - java-man 7y ago
      An elastic mount does not have to be a suffocating box. Plus, and I could be wrong here - the mounts are not really designed to be heat conductors (the rails are plastic on my high end Dell workstation); I suppose the heat is extracted via air flow.
mcv 7y ago
My previous PC had the option of inserting harddisks in rubber bands instead of screwing them to the frame. It was a case specifically aimed at noise reduction (the Antec Solo).

toolslive 7y ago

This is a classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4

aortega 7y ago
And a evolution of that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntw32kYDryM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntw32kYDryM