Lian Li EX-503 / 5-bay www.lian-li.com/en/dt_portfolio/ex-503 Fractal Design Silent Series R2 120mm http://www.fractal-design.com/home/product/case-fans/silent-series-r2-120mm Don't think you could find any quiet 4-5-bay enclosure, most have anoying small fans (40-60mm) The 503 case have a 120mm fan...

Somehow Win7 can't spindown the drives in my Lian Li case. Can I use HDD Scan (http://hddscan.com) ?

How about this: Fractal Design Define R4 Corsair XMS3 DDR3 PC10666/1333MHz CL9 2x4GB (CMX8GX3M2A1333C9) Intel® Core™ i5-3475S Processor Asus P8Z77-V Deluxe (Fan Xpert 2) Seasonic X-560 560W Fractal Design Silent Series R2 140mm (X 3) Prolimatech Megahalems Intel 320 Series 2.5" SSD 120GB Western Dig...

MikeC wrote:

jimbob wrote:thanks MikeC, I did some re-thinking after reading the answers. Still gonna build a big storage computer, but I gonna place it in a diffrent room.

Use the silencing techniques suggested anyway -- I remember visiting a friend whose server 2 floors away could beheard constantly!

Will do that.

Amazing how often this topic comes up... when we ran a whole series of home server build guides that's linked to the main menu! Look on the main left column on any SPCR main site page, and you will see " Silent PC Build Guides " Start here -- Silent Home Server Build Guide -- and you will get to Mi...

A NAS for 5-8 drives cost alot, and i need a new computer. So why dont get a new computer with alot of space ? First, here's spcr. You won't get any advice without reference to noise. Second, you're always talking about 8 drives. How much TB do you really need ? If you're talking max data you're in...

With NoVibes III HDD Decoupling Rack and enough 5.25" bays you can decouple eight drives. The questions remain, why? How much hard drive space do you really need and does it have to be in the same computer as your work machine? Eight 5K drives might not be silent, but tolerable if decoupled and you...

It's possible, but you still won't get silence from any multi-hard drive system. I had eight WD Green drives in my server a while back, and it was definitely quiet once I suspended the drives (a necessity IMO) but still audible if you listened for it. http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic....

(i assume op wants "eight" HDD's.) of course its doable, and it wont take that much power, depending on other components....but the real question is why? what else is this rig going to be doing besides running 8 HDD's? and, unless youre going to suspend 8 drives, it wont be silent.... ops sorry for...

Hi, been ayway from the quiet pc building for years. Planning to get a new computer and want alot of hard drives.
Is't madness to event try it or is't possible ?
How many Watts do you need for a build like this ?

Does anyone know a better fan. Or got some other ideas how to get a ASRock CORE 100HT run quieter.

Have't found much info about the orginal fans, but its a 60mm fan on the back.

think it will be enough to put 10mm foamboard on the side of the hddcase ? You seem to have excellent DIY skills. Give it a try and let us know the results, both on seek noise and HDD temperature! My rubber box with internal spot cooling works so well for me that I've completely stopped experimenti...

do you have rubber around the hdd's or ? doesnt they get warm then ? Yes, there's an awful lot of rubber around the HDDs, except for the open rear. They run quite cool, because of the 100mm spot-cooling fan that sits between them. Air is drawn in past the bottom HDD, and blown out past the top HDD....

1.5 ! i hardly could find 4mm. any idea's where to buy it ? and do you think thats the prob ? artbeads.com doesn't even charge shipping - they just stick a stamp on an envelope and mail first class! No, I think your seek noise problem is there isn't anything to dampen and block the high frequency n...

Here's my HDD noise remedy: http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/8045/aplus2xk9.th.jpg Yesterday, I built my 4th "box". They kill seek noise completely, and since there's a 100mm spot-cooling fan inside between the two HDDs, I get to seal the front panel of the PC behind the bezel so no noise escapes...

here is the latest version of my hddsuspensionrack. using a 4mm roundcord. prob is that i think it's still making to much nosie. is there anything else i can try ? Hmm, sure looks like it should work OK... Maybe ditch the aluminum cage entirely and suspend them the Aphonos way . but how much noise ...

here is the latest version of my hddsuspensionrack. using a 4mm roundcord. prob is that i think it's still making to much noise. is there anything else i can try ? http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/2017/hddrackv31mc7.th.jpg http://img461.imageshack.us/img461/4507/hddrackv32db5.th.jpg http://img244....

Since that compucase is almost identical with Antec SLK3000B ( I have had 6A21 as one case before I got P-182B for my gaming rig), you easily can make rubber suspension, simply by removed that HDD cage and but HDD's in elastic thing hanging from 5,25" bay like I did. I used used Bike Innertube to m...

seems the temp is like 38-40 after some hour's. is that ok or ? Is that under load or idle? Under load I wouldn't worry unless it went over 55-ish, but that seems reasonable for idle anyway. It's been a while since I've had to download CnQ drivers.... doesn't AMD have XP drivers on their site? I re...

seems the temp is like 38-40 after some hour's. is that ok or ?

TMM wrote:a bit thick, but should do the job fine

will give it a try then
found alot of it just laying around in my garage. good to find something usefull to do with it.

jaldridge6 wrote:Buy some 1/8" rubber roundcord or flatcord and suspend it... =)

will this work ?

That's a cool cage but won't that still make a lot of noise during seek? The rubber is a good idea, but they're still solid materials, and will leak vibrations to the cage which would rattle against the case. You might want to switch up the rubber with sort of soft foam, or you could insulate the b...

some pics on the new hdd suspension:

my advice for any type of drive suspension is to look north. it'll be a lot easier to use small bungee cords [the really little ones] hooked onto screws that are partly screwed into the holes on the underside of the drive. clean, effective, and its got plenty of life for it. don't use rubber bands,...

I just orderd half the part to build a new pc and I am also using the smae processor as you... How does it run??? Looks good... i haven't tested it so much, im trying to get the puter to run quiet right now but it seems to run just fine. edit : trying to get som ideas for the hdd suspension, anyone...

lots of work keep me from getting this thing finish. anyway here is some bad quality pictures. http://img14.imagevenue.com/loc954/th_74148_hddrack_122_954lo.jpg http://img151.imagevenue.com/loc1195/th_74153_mess_122_1195lo.jpg http://img136.imagevenue.com/loc521/th_74159_ninja_122_521lo.jpg next thi...

Hello, What case are you using? If the air flow is decent, then the Ninja is excellent at "passive" cooling. Here's my system in an Evercase 4252, with a "passive" Ninja on an Athlon 64 X2 4200+: http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=319124&highlight=#319124 the case is a Compucase 6...

Hello, I would do it the other way 'round -- put the fan in the rear of the case, exhausting the air out, and put no fan on the Ninja at all. That works great for my Athlon 64 X2 4200+ -- and the rear fan only runs part of the time! Sometimes, just the S12 PSU above the Ninja is running, along with...

when you mount the ninja, the best place to mount the fan would be so that the fan in blowing air over the fins toward the back of the case, where the rear fan is for exhaust, so it just cools it. as for the fan, well, it doesn't really matter, you could use an S-Flex, Nexus, maybe undervolt the st...