Re: Silencing MCE Hard drive

[Mal Lansell <mal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Seagate drives have an annoying habit of exercising the heads every
few
seconds when idle - you hear that even with normal sound-proofing measures.

Personally I'd dump it and go for a Samsung, plus the rubber mounts as
Jim suggests.  That's what I use, and the only way I can tell if my HTPC
is on is by the light on the front panel :-)

Mal



Jim wrote:
>
> Was it actually the drive that was noisy, or the case-borne vibration?
> In my
> experience it's the latter which is far worse.
>
> My current case has rubber mounts around the screws (hole is
> over-sized with
> a special grommet and long-reach screws). The only thing you can hear
> is the
> faint "ticking" of the head movement when up close.
>
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>]
On
> Behalf Of
> Mark McCall
> Sent: 21 April 2008 11:41
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [ukha_d] Silencing MCE Hard drive
>
> My Vista Media Centre box trashed it's 400GB SATA drive with all my
> recording on it last week (Doh!).
>
> It's an off the shelf beige-box and has always been a noisy fecker.
When
> taking the drive out I noticed the system dive is a 7,200 RPM
"Barracuda".
> Presumably it's not a good idea to try and put this into an enclosure
> to try
> and silence it?
>
> M.
>
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