Mounting a decoupled and sidesinked/sandwiched drive

frequencies · Post by **frequencies** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 10:41 am

I have an idea to sandwich and sidesink (if anyone hasn't come up with a better idea?) my drives as i have seen here on the site. It would be like:

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Aluminum platter
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Hdd with top facing downwards (since the heat come from the bottom)
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Thick sound damping material
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Hdd with top facing upwards
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Aluminum platter
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Put Alumninum sidesinks on the drives
Maybe some extra damping material on the short end of the drives
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My first question is: how does that sound
second: how do you mount a package like that? I've seen some variants here were for example Mike C put his "package"

just resting on some piece of foam.
I have read that harddrives should have a rigid mounting or it will have performance issues.

jhh · Post by **jhh** » Sat Feb 01, 2003 12:15 pm

there's a big article with a lot of things tried in the SPCR storage section, the best is using print rubber or somthing, haven't you read?