How to eliminate P182 top vibration?

Eagle156 · Post by **Eagle156** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 7:53 am

I only have one hard drive, a WD2500KS that's screwed into the grommets, but the top panel vibrates and often turns into a hum, even though there is no fan mounted there! Pushing down on the top eliminates this humming, but I'm surprised because practically no other part of the case is vibrating and I don't really see how the vibration can go from the lower HD cage all the way to the top. Short of suspension, is there anything I can do to eliminate this?

Triton · Post by **Triton** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 9:36 am

Are You sure HDD is the cause of vibration. Maybe it's PSU as it was in my PC.

Catapult · Post by **Catapult** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 10:19 am

I have the same problem and its the two top Tri-cool fans causing the problem, because its gone when I unplug them. Ill replace them with YLs in a few hours and post back the results.

Eagle156 · Post by **Eagle156** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:36 pm

Triton wrote:Are You sure HDD is the cause of vibration. Maybe it's PSU as it was in my PC.

If I shut my hd down by going into standby the vibration is gone, so I'm pretty sure it's it.

Catapult · Post by **Catapult** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 2:12 pm

Sorry I misunderstood your first post. You could try to enable AAM on your drive. Use the Hitachi Feature Tool program available on this free boot cd.
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/14/reduce ... ive-noise/

Shaman · Post by **Shaman** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 9:25 pm

You can lay the drive on foam on the lower cage as a quick and easy solution. It will be double-decoupled with the foam and the silicon grommets.

I have one hard drive inside a smartdrive 2002c resting on the grommets of the lower cage. I tied the smartdrive down with sewing elastic to make sure it doesn't move much or touches the sides of the cage if I ever tilt the case too much. Now that I think of it I could have put a sheet of foam beneath the smartdrive for extra measure...