Hello
I bought a 500gb WD hard drive last week from Scan. Would it come with mounting bracket or screws?
Mine came as it is, just alone.
I used 2 screws but it still vibrates a little. My other hard drive has 2 nylon slides that absorb all the vibration.
Where can I get hold of these? I've had a look, but I'm not sure what they are called.
Unless specified as being a retail pack, hard drives just come as you got it, in a little silver packet (or some times a clear plastic housing).
I don't think Scan do vibration damping things like that. The closest is a set of brackets that attach to the drive and fit it to a 5.24" bay.
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Your case should have come with all the screws and damnping rings to mount a HDD in a 3.5" slot.
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Lucio - i'm reusing my old OEM Fujitsu case. it only came with one mount.
ok my disk just came in the anti-static wrapper Funkstar.
will keep looking for these!
Not much help, but some drives come with mounting screws. However if you need more scres, you can probably get them from somewhere like Maplin.
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Screws and rails come with the case.... having built a fair number of systemd over the years I have accumulated quite a supply. you should have plenty with your case, but clearly you do not.
Places like you local PC store will have them.... check you local paper for adverts....
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You can use these to dampen the HDD vibrations: Maplin > Anti Vibration Washers
yeah i checked maplins as well as scan, dabs etc.
it's strange that there arn't any nylon runners around because that would be so cheap and i would have thought fairly popular. no screws needed just fit to har-disk and insert!
oh well - live and learn!
Do you drink wine? I make my dampening washers from the corks, very easy to cut to size, and do the job.
good plan! but luckily I managed to find a couple from a case a friend was going to throw away!
pc is now almost silent
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