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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>My HD's are Maxtor which, I didn't know before, seem to have a<br>reputation for being some of the noisiest.
<br>I have used many different cases in various computers including my<br>gaming machines and frontends and backend, including ones that are<br>supposed to be "quiet" cases that come highly recommended from sites
<br>like spcr. In my experience once you get rid of all other noises and you<br>use rubber grommets to try and damp the HD vibrations like in the Antec<br>sonata or slk series, I'm always left with a very low frequency hum that
<br>transfers right through and resonates in the chassis, including chassis<br>with "noise deadening" panels and the like. You have to listen closely<br>for it, but once I noticed it, it stayed noticeable.<br><br>
Of course, no one I've tried showing the noise to claims they hear it,<br>and they think I'm nuts for whining about it, but as soon as I suspended<br>the HD's, it was gone.</blockquote>
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<div>The noise you were hearing was vibration being transferred to the metal of your case. Pretty much the only way to get rid of it is through suspending the drives.</div><br> </div>I've gotten whisper quiet operation by using the Antec NSK-2400 case, a
2.5" notebook drive (suspended horizontally), voltmodding the included Antec 3 speed lownoise fans, replacing the included power supply's 80mm fan with a quiet sleeved model, and getting a scyth mini-ninja heatsink with a 120mm fan. I only use it as a frontend though. The big iron is still fairly noisy, but it is located in the basement storage room so no biggie there.
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