Yesterday I purchased elastic polyester/rubber strings from a sewing shop and first I tried suspending the HD with a few 1.5mm strings. All the vibrations disappeared but my system became non-responsive for short 1-2 sec intervals every now and then. So I removed the suspension, rebooted the comp, and the system returned to normal.
Photo of how I tried to suspend:
http://img124.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spa0432lr8.jpg
So perhaps the HD was moving up and down a bit too much when it hanged on those tiny strings? Instead I suspended the HDusing 3mm strings that I had also purchased, this worked fine for a couple of hours but now the same thing is happening but to a lesser extent. And unfortunately even with these thicker elastic strings I can feel some faint vibrations through the case, but I could live with those if just the system was stable.
I looked for some HD diagnostic tools but there seemed to be a risk of losing data and I have no way of backing-up 500gb. In the end I just did the S.M.A.R.T. test in Speedfan and that did however indicate that something is not right.
Without suspension:
![Image](http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/7834/hdnormalvc9.png)
With 1.5mm strings:
![Image](http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/1461/hdsuspendedyp4.png)
With 3mm strings:
![Image](http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/8354/hdsuspended3mmni0.png)
So why is this happening? Haven’t seen anyone else have these kinds of problems, especially not on this HD model, should I just give up on suspension now or what?
![Sad :(](./images/smilies/icon_sad.gif)