[SOLVED] How to quiet a noisey HD?

Sounds like your hard drive is starting to go out on you if it's getting hot. One of the first signs is all the clicking you're hearing.

I use Samsung hard drives and they're silent basically. Same for WD, Seagate and Maxtor (although Maxtor is now owned by Seagate).

Spend $50-60 and get a new hard drive. Trying to "sound isolate" the drive won't reduce the clicking noises hardly at all.

I cant hear my Drives if I do have my ear on the case ..... three OCZ Vertex Series 120GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drives

Now that's funny!

Got video?

Please tell me you're running a model train nearby.

I bought this to tweak (upgrade video, memory, add extra usb ports, and install win 7) and resell so I can't put an extra $50 into it as I will be lucky to break even with my quote as it is.

And as I said I bought another one of these that was exactly the same sound and I refurbed that one for my niece, so I believe it is just these harddrives. I will recommend regular backups and if they go bad w/in 12 mos I guess I'll replace 'em.

BTW Veedaz, In my experience solid state drives are very noisey ... every time I get near one I keep hearing Ka-ching! and loud moans from my wallet :-P

As I keep telling my wife - (Money is a tool to be used)

Now, that would go a long way to quietening your hard drive, provided you carried it to the right place.

I have modded the case a little, adding an extra case fan and changing the way the HD basket is mounted so that the new fan will blow over it.

When I got it out of the basket this time I looked it over and I believe it is designed to get hot as the underside appears to be a triple plated heatsink.

I still don't like the heat or the noise.

So the HD to avoid people is Hitachi Deskstar SATA 3.0 GB/s 7200RPM 500GB capacity Model HDS725050KLA360.

A final follow-up and I will mark this thread solved.

I have delivered the computer to the buyer, I spent 9 hours at their house migrating data, installing programs they like, setup and testing the printer, and testing the joystick with Flight Simulator

Since the HD finished search indexing it is much quieter, plus I put the side back on the case. It does seem the noise was just the intense indexing it was doing at initial set-up and now it isn't really noticable.

With the heat from the HD, the quad cores, and the HD4850 this will make a nice foot warmer for his wife in the winter months. I have pretty good circulation with the case mod so it rolls out the back.

Thanks for all who posted or laughed.

Hmmm, clifford it doesn't give me the option to mark it solved, is this because I'm the last poster? If you could please mark it SOLVED.