Polyethylene foam is heat insulating, so you should not place your drive directly on top of it. Use some standoffs if you have them, or just some screws of appropriate length to get some air between the drive and the foam. About the temperatures: I have no exact numbers, and I went directly from har...

Thank you for your feedback, sgrossklass and Aris The "naked" Velociraptor is cute. Can't be that much larger than an oldschool 2.5" drive. Afaik, it differs only in the thickness (height) of the drive. Conventional laptop drives are 9.5mm, the Velociraptor is 15mm like the server type SAS drives it...

Thank you for your feedback Okay idea but why not go with Stretch-magic or some pants elastic instead? I hadn't any lying around, and I wanted to try something else and have the lowest possible risk of a future sudden suspension failure while maintaining good dampening performance. Also, why decoupl...

I have just bought a VelociRaptor (WD3000GLFS). After installing it, I noticed quite irritating high pitch noise/whine from the drive. But removing the drive from its "IcePack" as described in this site's review of the drive helped a lot. Anyway, to mount the drive in the case without the IcePack an...

Regarding drive noise, I can confirm that removing the IcePack reduces the high pitch noise significantly.

For me, the whine went from "definitely irritating" to "almost inaudible" when I removed the drive from the IcePack.

Now I just hope I won't need the warranty for the next couple of years.