Silencing a Hard Drive Using Household Items 275
Reader Justblair recommends his blog entry detailing how he made a hard drive silencer for a pittance. "This article demonstrates a very easy-to-make hard drive silencer that not only outperforms most commercially available devices, but is cheaper to implement as well. Requiring very little in fabrication skills, it is an ideal addition to a media PC or HTPC. It may even suit you if your head is aching after many hours of being whined at by your hard drive."
Haven't read TFA (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Haven't read TFA (Score:5, Funny)
Does it involve bludgeoning with any number of common household items?
Only if you use reiserfs on the disk.
Re:Haven't read TFA (Score:3, Funny)
Gel cooling bags?! Pfft. Real men use socks.
Re:i have never found hard drive noise a problem (Score:5, Funny)
Well, sulky, then apply this technology to your fans. Put them in a box, pour in a lot of cooling gel and voila.
Re:i have never found hard drive noise a problem (Score:5, Funny)
Make sure you seal the box. It's the key to keeping fan noise down.
Re:RTA, he does suspend them. (Score:5, Funny)
He embeds them in gel and he suspends them with elastic.
Kinky!
i read "slicing a hardrive" (Score:2, Funny)
Now, I can image a large number of household tools to cut up a hard drive, but whether they will fulfill the criterion "outperforms most commercially available devices"?
Re:Haven't read TFA (Score:5, Funny)
too soon.
As soon as I read the title I thought... (Score:2, Funny)
You mean like using a hammer?
Re:I don't mind a little bit of noise from a HDD (Score:5, Funny)
It's a bit like a car engine - you know what your machine is supposed to sound like. When it doesn't, then you investigate.
Unfortunately, my Xbox is apparently supposed to sound like an overloaded 747 during takeoff... (I work near a UPS hub - I can take a fresh comparison every half-hour or so during the day).
Re:RTA, he does suspend them. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Solution (Score:5, Funny)
Or you could just buy some newer hard drives out there with high ariel density.
So how many mermaids can they fit into a hard drive these days?
A less recommended apporach (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, see, I was getting tired of hearing my hard drive whine, but rather than dampen the noise coming from it, I decided to drown it out: I had kids.
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Site silenced (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Haven't read TFA (Score:3, Funny)
Slashdotted - instructions below (Score:5, Funny)
1. post story to slashdot
2. watch server burst into flames
3. apply fire extinguisher liberally
4. enjoy perfectly quietened hard drive noises
(there's no "profit" in there... I must've missed a step!)
Re:Haven't read TFA (Score:3, Funny)
No, he put the hard drive in a big aluminium case, with those gel cooling bags surrounding the drive. Sorry, I just spoiled the whole thing. That's pretty much all it says.
This is what it said to me:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /hdsilence.html on this server.
Apache/2 Server at www.justblair.co.uk Port 80
Seems JustBlair /.ed himself.
Re:i have never found hard drive noise a problem (Score:3, Funny)
Re:i have never found hard drive noise a problem (Score:4, Funny)
What's with you kids these days? Hard disks belong in the computer, not running hither and yon around the room. Lack of discipline causes all these problems, I say!
Show me a nice, well restrained hard drive and I'll show you a nice, well behaved hard drive. Take the time to teach your computer discipline - you'll be glad you did.
Re:As soon as I read the title I thought... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Maybe it's just me... (Score:3, Funny)
Generally, people who can hear the high-pitched whine of a TV or the whine of transformers can also hear hard drives whine and find all the whining noise annoying. People going deaf won't know what the hell I am talking about.
Personally I hate it when Rodimus Prime whines. Good thing they brought back Optimus Prime to put him in his place.
Re:Solution (Score:1, Funny)
Re:i have never found hard drive noise a problem (Score:5, Funny)
Much easier to outrun but they do more damage if they catch you.
Re:RTA, he does suspend them. (Score:1, Funny)
In a silent PC no one can hear the blue screen of death.
Re:i have never found hard drive noise a problem (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Maybe it's just me... (Score:1, Funny)
Pardon me? Speak into the funnel young man.
Re:Sledgehammer... (Score:3, Funny)
...and it shall be silent forever!
Ah, so now we know what M.C. was singing about when he said "STOP! Hammertime!"
Re:i have never found hard drive noise a problem (Score:4, Funny)
Re:i have never found hard drive noise a problem (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I've found a better solution a few years ago (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Haven't read TFA (Score:2, Funny)
Fixed.
Re:i have never found hard drive noise a problem (Score:4, Funny)
I'm just curious, but what kind of gel do you use to silence your wife and kids?
Re:i have never found hard drive noise a problem (Score:2, Funny)
Loud hard drives do exist, even in the 7200 RPM range. Consider yourself lucky if you've never hard to make the decision of whether or not to swap out an otherwise decent drive simply because the thing won't shut up. We have some 5+ year old Dells at work with hard drives that chatter annoyingly,
Like some cow-orkers.
Re:i have never found hard drive noise a problem (Score:3, Funny)
Re:i have never found hard drive noise a problem (Score:2, Funny)
Re:i have never found hard drive noise a problem (Score:3, Funny)
Depends on how it's done, I suppose, but I find that use of KY jell tends to make my other half *much* noisier...
Although she doesn't squeak as much, so that's a bonus...
Re:Haven't read TFA (Score:3, Funny)
Socks, bubble wrap, pieces of Styrofoam, and duct tape work great. Uhh, or so I heard. I never did that. Nope, I, uhh, machined a soundproof case and engineered an active noise canceling solution. Yeah, that's the ticket! But I had help from, um... Morgan Fairchild
Of course you did, because the socks were from Old Navy!