How do they compare to the Samsung SpinPoints with Nidec motors?Reachable wrote:If you do forgo SSDs for the time being, there are now quite a number of hard drives that are extremely quiet, some of them with very large capacity.
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- Sat Apr 17, 2010 4:07 pm
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: So how much has changed in the last five years?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10166
- Sat Apr 10, 2010 8:45 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Silencing a Mouse's Microswitches
- Replies: 17
- Views: 97612
So was how well did this mod worked for you all on this forum? I did the mod and reduced the loudness to about 25% of what it was beforehand. Not quite silence but a big improvement. Also my left click is louder than my right click. I don't want a feather light touch where any finger pressure at all...
- Sun Mar 07, 2010 11:07 am
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: So how much has changed in the last five years?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10166
- Sun Mar 07, 2010 7:01 am
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: So how much has changed in the last five years?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10166
So how much has changed in the last five years?
2005 is when I built my rig. Then Nexus 120 mm fans and Antec cases seemed to be all the rage. Intel chips were largely out because of high energy consumption. So now it's 2010. SSDs are getting reasonably cheap, memory has gone from DDR to DDR3, there's something called USB 3.0, and everything has ...
- Wed Jun 21, 2006 2:36 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: ACPI for Fan Control in Linux?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1801
ACPI for Fan Control in Linux?
I have three fans connected to my motherboard with three-pin connectors and just want to set them at 50% like I do with SpeedFan. Will ACPI give me the fan control I want? Has anyone here done this? Just thought I would check before I go through the pains of a custom kernel.
- Sat Apr 08, 2006 10:12 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Nidecs, Seasonic, and 125 Hz
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3878
It's almost certainly the drive motors. My Samsung SpinPoints are soft-mounted, and when I put a finger on one I can feel it vibrating, but can't hear them. I'm betting if you soft-mount your disks, the hum will go away. That will help, but I'm trying to solve the whoosh noise too. I might enclose ...
- Sat Apr 08, 2006 10:10 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Nidecs, Seasonic, and 125 Hz
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3878
As others have said, it's almost certainly your hard drives. How far away from the case was the microphone when you made the recording? The reason I ask is that the 120 Hz spike that you're seeing will probably be much more pronounced in a near-field recording than one from your operating position....
- Sat Apr 08, 2006 10:08 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Nidecs, Seasonic, and 125 Hz
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3878
- Sat Apr 08, 2006 7:29 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Nidecs, Seasonic, and 125 Hz
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3878
Nidecs, Seasonic, and 125 Hz
My computer includes two Samsung Nidecs, a Seasonic 350W Super Tornado Rev. 2, and an Antec 3000B. The Nidecs are hard mounted. Today I stopped my case and CPU fans and made a few recordings from the front and side of my case. The recordings were made with an MXL 990 and done so in a relatively casu...
- Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:39 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: My totally silent low-power rig!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11341
- Sun Jan 15, 2006 6:47 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: My totally silent low-power rig!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11341
Does that foam help to kill the whoosh noise from your Samsung? If so, where did you get the foam. Is it not helpful to put foam on the underside of the hard drive? The foam helps tremendously. With it, I have real silence - I can't hear the machine, even seeking, at a distance of about 1 meter. Th...
- Fri Jan 13, 2006 5:24 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: My totally silent low-power rig!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11341
- Mon Jan 09, 2006 5:43 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: PCs and RF interference.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4436
- Sun Jan 08, 2006 9:01 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: PCs and RF interference.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4436
Yes. PCs do cause microphones to pick up noise. I have an SM57 dynamic microphone w/ balanced line and it picks up some noise from the PSU and CRT. I suspect that other components inside the PC might also cause noise. I also have a Marshall MXL 990 condenser mic and it does NOT pick up audible RF no...
- Sun Oct 02, 2005 1:20 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Info on SpeedFan
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4115
- Thu Sep 29, 2005 4:35 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Info on SpeedFan
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4115
- Thu Sep 29, 2005 4:19 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Info on SpeedFan
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4115
Info on SpeedFan
There is an option in SpeedFan that says "set fans to 100% on program exit." Can anyone explain to me how my computer manages to hold the fan settings after the program has closed out?
- Wed Sep 28, 2005 8:49 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Running Two Fans off a Single Fan Header
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2842
- Wed Sep 28, 2005 5:55 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Running Two Fans off a Single Fan Header
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2842
Running Two Fans off a Single Fan Header
My motherboard has three fan headers (3-pin). Two have variable voltage, while the other is fixed at 12v. This presented a problem for me because my system had three fans that should not be run at 12v. I solved the probelm by putting the voltage lines from the front and rear case fans in parallel an...
- Wed Sep 28, 2005 5:39 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Bubblewrap, and some other question.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4786
- Wed Aug 03, 2005 9:58 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: silent PC.. as a musician..
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10710
- Sun Jul 31, 2005 11:58 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: silent PC.. as a musician..
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10710
I don't think I'd want to put my hard drive in a pouch, put my computer in the trunk of a car, and then drive 600km. I'm not so much worried about having a hard drive slide free, as I am having a hard drive forcibly collide with my motherboard. It's really the motherboard that I am concerned about. ...
- Sat Jul 30, 2005 2:28 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: silent PC.. as a musician..
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10710
I'll have to look into enclosures. I looked at one but was a bit put off by the $60 price tag, as it will cost $120 for two of them. I've been looking into suspension, but few setups are rugged enough for the computer to be transported. My sound card has is rated with a 120db SNR and a dynamic range...
- Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:22 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: silent PC.. as a musician..
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10710
I've been wondering how to silence my hard drives. I'm considering mounting 2-5cm thick pieces of foam around my hard drives (partially enclosing them)in an attempt to cut hard drive noise by 50%. I didn't realize that noise gates were a practical solution to the spin noise problem. these days, even...
- Mon Jul 11, 2005 12:13 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Does Suspension Reduce Whoosh Noise
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2095
Does Suspension Reduce Whoosh Noise
My hard drives are the loudest components in my computer. They are mounted conventionally in an Antec SLK 3000B drive cage. When idling they produce a soft whoosh noise. If I remove the dive cage and hold it in my hand while the computer is running, the level of whoosh noise does not change. Will su...
- Thu Jun 30, 2005 7:07 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: one fan Athlon64 3000+ rig
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12753
- Tue Jun 28, 2005 2:10 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Expert opinion wanted on my new 'silent' DAW system!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6706
- Fri Jun 24, 2005 3:37 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: What are the different temp readings in my speedfan?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4525
I hope I'm not hijacking this thread, but I've been having similar problems with SpeedFan. My read out looks like this: Temp1: 30C <---mobo Temp2: 40C <---CPU Temp3: 17C <---??? Temp: 126C <---??? Temp: 126C <---??? HD0: 29C <---hard disk HD1: 29C <---hard disk I don't know where the two "Temp: 126C...
- Thu Jun 23, 2005 10:57 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Soft Mounting Two Hard Disks in a 3000B
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1971
Soft Mounting Two Hard Disks in a 3000B
I have two Samsung Nidecs in an Antec SLK 3000B. What is the best way to quiet them? I'm thinking that I must soft mount them. I might use burcakb's drive cage suspension method ( http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=17474&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 ), but I'm not sure if the drive...
- Tue Jun 21, 2005 9:45 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Max Input Power of Nexus 120mm Fans
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2150