Loud Quantum Hard Drives

[boojew]

I have the DSR6k, and in my living when its quiet you can hear the hard drive spinning.. and it's annoying.

So I removed the HD this weekend and attempted to run ATAAC, the accoustic management software for harddrives, on the stock 40gb quantum drive... No good.. wouldnt work. ATAAC says the drive supports accoustic management, but I cant seem to change the settings.

However I tried ataac on my current PC HD and it worked!

Any tips? Any other ways to quiet my HD besides buying a new one?

Thanks

[TomW]

You could try rubber shock mounting...

[boojew]

The noise is more the noise of the platters spinning than that of vibration.

[BubbleLamp]

Originally posted by boojew
I have the DSR6k, and in my living when its quiet you can hear the hard drive spinning.. and it's annoying.

So I removed the HD this weekend and attempted to run ATAAC, the accoustic management software for harddrives, on the stock 40gb quantum drive... No good.. wouldnt work. ATAAC says the drive supports accoustic management, but I cant seem to change the settings.

However I tried ataac on my current PC HD and it worked!

Any tips? Any other ways to quiet my HD besides buying a new one?

Thanks

Try an acoustic management tool from another vendor, I've gotten that to work before. Also, are you sure it's spinning platters that you hear? The bigger noise problem for me is head seeks. That's what acoustic management deals with. It can't do anything about spinning noise.

Shock mounting can cut the transmission of vibrations from the drives to the mounting plate, but you'll also lose the heat transfer as well. Lining the inside of the cover with a good dense foam helps to a degree.

[sledge]

The noise was driving me so batty I finally just decided to move the unit to another room. My living room is adjacent to our kitchen pantry, so I drilled some holes for the s-video/audio cables and now the tivo lives in there. Can't hear a thing ever. ahhh....

For the remote I built a wired IR repeater circuit from plans I found on the net. One of the wireless ones could be used as well.
It really is the best to have the the tivo out of the room. Almost seems like magic now...

sledge

[bobwondernut]

I switched the unit that was in my bedroom (sat-t60 with stock quantum and ibm 80gb) with a new unit i purchased for the living room (two maxtor 120gb drives inside). the maxtors are nearly silent compared with what the other unit sounds like now, runs at 45C, and has 231 hours of porn i mean capacity.