For reasons too ticklish to tell, I'm stuck using a loud drive in my office. Reviews, much less recent reviews are pretty scant on drive enclosures.
I'd appreciate any and all opinions offered on some of the more recent offerings:
I've read the forum posts on older enclosures, and no one seemed that enthused with any of them- if you have a contrary opinion, please post away.
Anyone have a preferred internal HD Enclosure?
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From Newegg. Only 1 review on the Scythe Himuro so don't take it as the end all be all:
Pros: it's big, well i guess that's not a pro.
Cons: quality control- there were air bubbles in the foam on the top plate, and a FOOT PRINT- yes a foot print, like the imprint of a shoe sole on the thermal pad. this is not design because i could rub off the dust from the imprint. this actually raised my hd temps. hd ran at 30-32c and now runs 33-35c. also, my hd noise is worse, but read below for that because there's a catch.
Other Thoughts: here is the deal with the louder hd. i have a stacker 830 which has a cage that isolates the hd- doesn't enclose it, but isolates the vibration. the cage is nothing special, so i thought that this cooler would do better. i took out the cage and with this in it's place, you get more vibration. i think that it's because the rubber used in this hd cooler is pretty stiff. THERE IS ANOTHER CATCH. i also use a raptor 10k rpm drive. those are pretty loud, but i would expect a good hd cooler/silencer to atleast quiet the hd down a little while maintaining temps- not make all things worse. i will be returning this. i will probably not buy another scyth product again. i am sticking with zman.
Pros: it's big, well i guess that's not a pro.
Cons: quality control- there were air bubbles in the foam on the top plate, and a FOOT PRINT- yes a foot print, like the imprint of a shoe sole on the thermal pad. this is not design because i could rub off the dust from the imprint. this actually raised my hd temps. hd ran at 30-32c and now runs 33-35c. also, my hd noise is worse, but read below for that because there's a catch.
Other Thoughts: here is the deal with the louder hd. i have a stacker 830 which has a cage that isolates the hd- doesn't enclose it, but isolates the vibration. the cage is nothing special, so i thought that this cooler would do better. i took out the cage and with this in it's place, you get more vibration. i think that it's because the rubber used in this hd cooler is pretty stiff. THERE IS ANOTHER CATCH. i also use a raptor 10k rpm drive. those are pretty loud, but i would expect a good hd cooler/silencer to atleast quiet the hd down a little while maintaining temps- not make all things worse. i will be returning this. i will probably not buy another scyth product again. i am sticking with zman.
I scored 0 on my reading comprehension test
Thank you for trying to be helpful, even if you didn't actually read all 100 words of my original post.spolitta wrote:Why spend so much on an enclosure when with the same money you could buy a quiet hard drive and image your old HD to the new one?
While that is obviously the most sensible choice, that is not an option in this case. For reasons I can't divulge, none of the hardware in the case, including the drive, can be modified.
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I'm using the Logisys thingy with a WD GP drive. With that quiet, cool drive it reduces seek noises by perhaps half and reduces whine to about zero, and temperature is reduced 4C. So it seems to work okay with an already silent drive. You'd have better luck isolating vibration, though, by suspending the drive. My plan is to suspend the Logisys thingy. I'll suspend a second, too, and maybe place a third on foam at the bottom of the case.
My one complaint is that it doesn't align with the other 5.25 drives. It sits low, so it can't be mounted in the space directly above another device, or at the bottom of the 5.25 cage. A fine arrangement for cooling, but your first one essentially takes two spaces.
Newegg is out of them, and I apparently bought the last one jab-tech had. Maybe they're becoming unavailable.
My one complaint is that it doesn't align with the other 5.25 drives. It sits low, so it can't be mounted in the space directly above another device, or at the bottom of the 5.25 cage. A fine arrangement for cooling, but your first one essentially takes two spaces.
Newegg is out of them, and I apparently bought the last one jab-tech had. Maybe they're becoming unavailable.