On 19 Sep 2006 at 21:57, Dean Kukral wrote:

> There is nothing that you can do to silence a hard drive.  You may be able
> to mount it somehow (say, suspended by tape) so that the vibrations of the
> drive are not amplified by the case.

  I have an Antec "Sonata II" case, which is engineered to minimize noise.  
One of the steps they've taken is to mount the hard drives on rubber 
"gaskets" so that vibration from the drives doesn't transmit to the case.
  But obviously, that's only going to prevent the case from amplifying the 
sound -- it doesn't actually reduce the sound at the drive.  So it may or 
may not help in this instance.

David Gillett

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