How do you think tihs hdd cooler/silencer would perform with this hdd?
I'm not concerned with vibrations at all, just the very high pitch whine that I hear.... would this enclosure eliminate it?
Logysis Hard Drive Silencer with Samsung HD401LJ?
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Logysis Hard Drive Silencer with Samsung HD401LJ?
Last edited by james111 on Mon Oct 02, 2006 1:41 pm, edited 1 time in total.
It seems to be identical to the Silentmaxx HD Silencer Rev.2.0 (save for the blue-versus-black color and company's logo). I'm using one Silentmaxx and one Scythe Quiet Enclosure right now in my main PC (2x Samsung HD401LJ RAID-0 setup) with both enclosures laying on foam and the tower has been damped with some Noiseblocker EvolutionEQ Platinum damping material too (impressive stuff). I've been testing the Silentmaxx enclosure ±2 hours in free air prior to building the RAID-0 array, in order to compare it to Nexus and Scythe enclosures; so far I'd rate the Silentmaxx easily as good as the Scythe for reducing idle noise, but a little lower for reducing vibrations. Nexus always comes third place. I only got rid of all vibration-induced noises from my dual HD401LJ setup when decoupling enclosures from the tower using some additional Noiseblocker damping material.
Temp-wise, I think the Silentmaxx is the best performer but I didn't compare the enclosures with the same hard disk. Another very good point for the Silentmaxx enclosure is that it's significantly smaller than the Scythe (the Scythe being smaller than the Nexus if you remove external pads on the Scythe). I don't know if there are some big differences between the three enclosures when it comes to reducing vibrations because I'm using industrial quantities of high-grade foam everywhere in this rig; only thing I can say is that the single noise source I can hear from this PC is the ~7Volt Nexus 120mm fan (using fanless motherboard, CPU HS, GPU & PSU). I can't check SMART temps from both Samsung drives because of the ICH8R RAID setup.
To answer your questions, I'm confident this enclosure would perform very well with a T133 hard disk drive. High-freq whine from two HD401LJ will be reduced to something lower than a cherry-picked Nexus 120mm black & white fan at 7 Volts, provided you decouple the enclosures properly.
Temp-wise, I think the Silentmaxx is the best performer but I didn't compare the enclosures with the same hard disk. Another very good point for the Silentmaxx enclosure is that it's significantly smaller than the Scythe (the Scythe being smaller than the Nexus if you remove external pads on the Scythe). I don't know if there are some big differences between the three enclosures when it comes to reducing vibrations because I'm using industrial quantities of high-grade foam everywhere in this rig; only thing I can say is that the single noise source I can hear from this PC is the ~7Volt Nexus 120mm fan (using fanless motherboard, CPU HS, GPU & PSU). I can't check SMART temps from both Samsung drives because of the ICH8R RAID setup.
To answer your questions, I'm confident this enclosure would perform very well with a T133 hard disk drive. High-freq whine from two HD401LJ will be reduced to something lower than a cherry-picked Nexus 120mm black & white fan at 7 Volts, provided you decouple the enclosures properly.
