I would like to thank flemeister again for posting the solution to my problem. After more than 1.5 years working with suspension, I still didn't have any hdd noise to complain about until I installed one extra hdd in the normal way suggested with the grommets. The noise is back, so it's definitely s...

Why do you need a 3 disks in raid 0, this will increase the noise, as its stipping all drives will have partials of each file so it will seek in all drives always. But it also increases write/read speeds. :mrgreen: Btw the Solo II with its own suspension can only do 2 hdd, 3 only with the trays. Go...

Thanks for your replies! Below my replies. This should work: http://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/related/1b1w89/pictures_building_a_home_made_hard_drive/ Ha! This seems a cheap but very effective solution. This is certainly worth considering, if it works (and if I can get all the right materials for it...

Hi, Seeing as the Define R4 was reviewed as a silent case, I didn't expect vibration, case resonance, and noise heard at a 2 meter distance when I installed 3 not especially noisy Seagate ST1000DM003 drives in it. In fact, I expected a whisper quiet case. However, I previously owned a Dell XPS 8100 ...