Thanks for the replys

Does anyone have any experience with this enclosure? Its the Logisys Aluminum Hard Drive Silencer and its pretty cheap.

http://www.svc.com/hs102bl.html

Is the best way to silence a hard drive to put it in an enclosure and either place that enclosure on foam or suspend it from elastic bands to decouple the vibrations from the case?

Also what is the best enclosure for a 3.5 inch drive? The Smart Drive? Scythe Quiet Drive? Thanks!

It depends on what you deem as quiet. For starters, you have 12 fans, which will add 11 dB to the noise of only one fan, if they all ar run at the same speed. This then has to be added to your background noise, resulting in your audible noise level. I have a question for you. This is taken from the...

It depends on what you deem as quiet. For starters, you have 12 fans, which will add 11 dB to the noise of only one fan, if they all ar run at the same speed. This then has to be added to your background noise, resulting in your audible noise level. Example: background noise in my suburban house is...

lodestar wrote:Although described as a 140mm fan the Thermalright TY-140 is an oversized 120mm fan, so it has 120mm fixing holes and as far as I know is not supplied with fixings to allow it to be fitted as a 140mm fan replacement.

I am going to get adapters from Noctua.

I am talking specifically about the models which have 3 92mm fans stock. Are these models silent on low (1000rpm as stated by AC) and can you hook these cards up to fan controllers and run them slower than 1000rpms? Thanks

Hey guys I am going to be building an air cooled system in a Lian Li PC-X1000 case with the intent of making it as close to silent as possible and overclocking the living crap out of it :D. I am going to be replacing the 5 stock Lian Li fans with 5 Thermalright TY-140 fans as well as using a Thermal...