Suspending optical drive?

Marvin · Post by **Marvin** » Sun Jan 19, 2003 11:50 pm

When I built my computer, I made a mistake and bought Lite-On CD-RW. It does the job well, but it is noisy as hell.

I have a Chieftec case and I started to wonder if anyone has suspended their CD/DVD-drives.

I ask this because I don't want to invent the wheel again, if somebody has a good solution for this.

The drive is slid into its place on a rails that are screwed to its sides, and I dont know ifthere is enough room to make "normal" suspension like with harddrives.

So does anyone have any suggestions?

wussboy · Post by **wussboy** » Mon Jan 20, 2003 6:37 pm

My suggestion, Marvin, is by all means to suspend it! And then let us know what happens.

ez2remember · Post by **ez2remember** » Tue Jan 21, 2003 12:33 am

It will probably reduce most of the vibrational noises, but will not get rid of air turbulance caused by high spinning speed of CD's.

But if anyone has a slow drive that is quiet, this would be a perfect situation.