Since it sounds like modifying the existing internals is less than desirable, how about modifying the environment? I don't have any experience with these, but maybe you could isolate your cases better from what they're resting on: http://acoustiproducts.com/en/acoustifeet.asp An easy test might be ...

Scythe Bay Cooler or the CoolerMaster 4-3 device. I finally bought one. It's a product of solid construction. The 12cm fan it ships with is reasonably quiet, for me, even at +12V. It won't spin up at all at +5V, but probably will at some higher voltages. It has a dust filter in behind the swiss che...

the Cooler Master fans in 6 packs. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811999084 are quite at 7 volts. Awesome. Exactly what I'm looking for! I'm going to pick up a pack tonight. Prepare for disappointment, then. Those fans may be quiet at 7 volts, but that means --GASP-- doing an ...

.... Nope, I can't. I won't pay for the Lexus of fans. .... I bought a random Yate Loom 12cm fan and at +5V it's actually pretty quiet, at least for my purposes. I'd like something similar in a 8cm factor -- good enough -- but not $10/ea. ... the Cooler Master fans in 6 packs. http://www.newegg.com...

I'm not seeking the perfect solution. I'm just looking for a reasonably priced solution to reduce the noise to a more acceptable level. And I don't believe I need to blow $10/ea for quieter fans just to accomplish that. Given how creative many here are with random stuff from Home Depot and whatnot,...

can still hear it downstairs, though, although it's only moderately above the ambient noise level. Christ! Your pc's are vibrating your floors to such a degree that you can hear this through the ceiling of the room below? Yep, mildly. It's pretty nifty, actually. The high HZ noise also bounces down...

The firmware on these drives doesn't expect the drive to be moving, as the housing moves away from the head as it seeks, and this can possibly be a source of confusion. I haven't heard of this effect before. Could you please give us more information about this? I thought the head was just controlle...

... Then there's physical energy. Which brings be to my question: jasonb885 "At the moment I mostly just want to stop the floor from vibrating from disks and fans" Your hard drives and your case fans are vibrating your floors? Fan turbulence and disk whirring are both broadband noise, and shouldn't...

... It's normally very expensive, because most places sell them by the box for hundreds of dollars. You can just buy them by the sheet at mnptech for 7.99 ( 24" x 16" x 1" ). Two or Three of them should be enough for a P150. http://www.mnpctech.com/SonexWilltec.html It should be effective for absor...

Im buying vinyl and sonex foam. Going to layer the foam on top of the vinyl (where there is enough room). Maybe you should try the same thing and get the best of both worlds. That stuff is insane expense. Hence my questions about the items I posted earlier that seem far more reasonably priced. For ...

Keep in mind that foam is (supposedly) for sound absorbtion, while heavy steel and vinyl sheets/tiles are for damping vibrations. The closest thing I can easily find that sort of does both seems to be carpet underlay, but I don't know how effective it is (yet). Basically I'm always on the lookout f...

Good question. I was about to ask something similar. Anyone have any thoughts on these products before I buy all of them in pain? At least one person here has commented that the asphalt stuff is nice insofar as it is heavy and helps weigh down cases, but can be smelly. The vinyl stuff is supposedly ...

I have the same question about reliability. My problem is that I had 4 WD failures (all were 120 gb pata 7200rpm bought at different time periods), and I am worried about buying from them again..... It's useful to note that WD doesn't manufacture its drives, but has others fab them. Never quite kno...

You suck at quoting, so I'm just going to paste stuff because it's easier than wading through a huge post filled with unbroken paragraphs of streaming quote tags. Your claim that in that quote I claim that RAID 5 mirrors. I will now explain the logic, so maybe even you will understand. Assumptions: ...

New Seagate's, from 7200.7 on, generally suck - they perform a proceedure called "off line scan" when idle making intermintant noise best discribed as "buzzing" they also lost AAM due to a lawsuit filed by I forget whom but basically an injuction was issued for thier alleged theft of the technology...

... I think the problem with this thread is the initial post is so vague... I mean the pros and cons are listed from the start.. how is any answer going to match everyone's individual needs? I think the worst is comparing 150GB of storage to 500... really if you need 500GB of storage then no a sign...

Yes, that's generally FRAID. If there are only Windows drivers that's usually a good indication that it's FRAID. Or just Google. FRAID is not an official term. Even, if you google for FRAID, you won't get any links pointing to any kind of reference or links to RAID with the first 10 pages. (I stopp...

Sooty wrote:Scythe Bay Cooler or the CoolerMaster 4-3 device.

Cool. Thanks!

Is there a decent bay cooloer solution? My six 5.25" bay beast has, well, five 5.25" bays available at the moment and I'd like to dedicate two or three of them to a 12cm fan in some capacity so I can provide some additional cooling at 5V for my six not drives.

Thanks!

... Do you mean FRAID (fake BIOS/software RAID)? You'd be better off with real software RAID or a true hardware RAID controller with the logic right on the controller. FRAID is the worst of both worlds in terms of recovery, portability, and performance. I meant onboard raid-5, like the one provided...

It's more like a humming sound. Also I have the computer on a big wooden table, which is probably helping amplify this noise. Still the odd (and most annoying) thing to me is the fact that that sounds comes and goes... Yes, I have that. I have a few drives, predominantly older SCSI, that do that. I...

GHz wrote:I've bought a ton of supplies from Jab-Tech and I heartily recommend them.

Yes, I had a good experience too and they're rated highly on resellerratings if the glowing response at SPCR isn't enough.

jasonb885, what is the benefit to you of staying with SCSI? I have been all too glad to pitch my old, expensive, noisy SCSI HDDs and replace them with SATA drives. SATA cabing is pretty nice, and SATA RAID is a piece of cake. A good question and one I have been increasingly pondering myself. Mostly...

My Seagate 15K rpm (v2) isn't that noisy. I suspended it w/ Stretch magic & can't hear it at all (see the Gallery forum for pics). I think v 3 & 4 r even quieter. Even before suspension, it was a lot quieter than my older 7.2K SCSI disks. Cheers peter Cool. I wish 15K weren't so expensive... I thin...

My original 18GB SCA 10K U160 Seagate Cheetah finally died last night. To address the forth coming questions, I have already considered a wide variety of options ranging from recycling an existing ATA disk, buying a new SATA disk and controller, migrating to my existing RAID 5 array, and so forth. F...

Just to name a few boards that have the raid-5 controller: Asus A8N-VM CSM, Gigabyte GA-K8N51GMF-9, Foxconn 6150K8MA-8EKRS, ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe, ASUS A8N-SLI Premium, DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 SLI-DR, MSI K8N Diamond Plus, ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe, MSI K8NGM2-FID... I only listed s939 motherboards, other so...

For what it's worth, I just picked up an inexpensive 12cm Yate Loom as someone mentioned they're what the Nexus 12cm tend to be. It makes a very audible wooshing noise at 12V, but it's pretty quite -- for me -- at 5V. I tried it with a connector with a resistor that supposedly ~ 9Vs the fan, but it ...

Wow. It's the 30GB Quantum Fireball I bought in 2000 for about $115. It seems to be causing huge vibrations because I have it mounted in the lower drive cage, which is not welded into the case. Instead, it comes loose for easy of drive insertion. I have the floppy in there as well. I tried mounting...

I'm thinking about some of these, and they're reasonably priced to boot. LIGHTWEIGHT VINYL SOUND DAMPING SHEET 10"x13" http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/pshowdetl.cfm?&DID=7&Partnumber=268-030 ACOUSTIC FOAM 2-1/2" 24"x18" UL94 http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?&DID=7&Partnumber=260-515 SONIC ...

The above takes care of cause 1, for no 2 you need to add weight and damping to the case sides. I've used car damping, not the cellfoam but rather the rubber/asphalt stuff. Do you mean stuff like this? http://www.techimo.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-11466.html http://www.tnt-audio.com/clinica/damp...