Hello everyone. I have 3 hard disks, and I originally thought they where horribly noisy. (They are seagate barracudas).
They really where making a LOT of noise. (Around 3 or 4 times louder than anything else in my PC).
Anyway, recently, I was so annoyed with it, I took the main one (drive C) out of the drive bay. I cut some foam into two small squares, and I put the squares on the bottom of the case (inside). I then just rested the hard disk on the foam. I never move the case, so its perfectly fine like that. Anyway, the volume of the disk has dropped a LOT! Its now barely even noticeable... even when doing a virus scan or playing a game etc.. The other two disks are still as noisy as ever though.
So.... my conclusion is that the disks just vibrate a lot, and aren't actually noisy themselves. But the hard drive cage which holds the disks in this Akasa Eclipse-62 case, is very slightly wobbly. It doesn't seem to be screwed into the frame, and instead its attached some other way (by some strange clip I think, - which you can maybe pull hard so you can remove the entire hard drive cage?).
So..... can anyone suggest some cheap and DIY ways I can solve this issue? My only idea really, is to remove that cage, and then suspend the two disks somehow. There is no more room on the bottom of the case for the disks (maybe 1 more...), so I really need to suspend them somehow.
I was thinking maybe tying string around each end of the disk in a knot, and then hanging them from the 5 1/4 inch bays above where the hard drive cage was. But I'd really appreciate any ideas before I do anything like this.
Thanks in advance
p.s. Bear in mind, I'd rather not spend any money unless I really have to. I know there are hard drive coolers which hold in some noise too, but the decent ones of those seem to start at about £20, and I would need two of them. I'd rather not spend that seeing as I spent a fortune on this case, and these disks to begin with.