I'm considering to swap my 3.5" hdd (annoyng loud) for a quiet 2.5" hdd. Which is the best way to fix it firmly to the pc case?
Maybe with a sort of bracket like this?

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well, I'ts and axperiment (to build a compromise between price, low energy and efficiency), so I decided to spend some extra bucks. I bought a picopsu120 with a 80w power brick, and installed them after removing the previous 500w psu. Now the PC is totally fanless, work very well and is almost total...

update: after installing a picopsu (thus eliminating psu fan noise), seagate hdd become noticeabily loud. Searching sounds, not vibrations.

*update 25/01: the noises diminished (but not totally disappeared) after a deep defragmenting of hdd.

I have the same hdd, i'ts running at 34 Cº with no noise at all. It's very quiet. Maybe as you suspected your disk is defective.

I have an AA1, is noisless after installing the fan control software. The fan now turn on only on booting and when temp rises over 65 Cº, this mean very little time in you are only surfing or typing emails. Totally silent.

Wonderful computer. I'm very satisfied with it.

I think some of you might like to have the option to track me down and shoot at me with homing missiles, but hey this Seagate is a great HDD and I am sorry that I didn't join the Western Digital WD6400AAKS club! I have the same 7200.11 500GB, for now it is OK (less than two weeks on). This HDD is s...

my Seagate 500gb 7200.11 is working good for now, and definitively IS quiet, very quiet. Fast and good HHD, and cheap too. But I'm concerned for the many reports I've read about death failures (see Newegg for example). I bought it a couple of weeks ago, I hope I will have no troubles but for safe I'...

ACook, my power supply is a generic one that come with the mini-itx case, 500w. The fan is quite loud. That's the main reason to change to picopsu. As I wrote, a 500w PSU is too powerful for a PC that consumes maximum less than 60w, and 38w at idle. And again, my purpose is to reach a balance betwee...

Lawrence, I agree that few watts don't worth an extra purchase for 38 + 26 $ (picopsu + power brick 12v, ebay prices), but my 500w power supply is too loud for me, and I suppose it is also quite inefficient becouse my system is low energy.
I want a green, cheap AND QUIET pc.

Hi to all, I found this forum and I much appreciate it becouse I'm : 1 - computer addict; 2 - concerned to silent computing ; 3 - concerned to "green" computing. Sorry for my poor english, I'm mexican (from Mexico City). So, my first DY target was to build a low power consumption PC (and as silent a...

I have built a relatively low power consumption pc for average desktop usage (web surfing, office, dvd burning, p2p....): ecs mini-dtx atom motherboard (all on board) 2gb ddr2 533 kingston seagate 500gb 3.5" HDD liteon dvd-rw generic mini-itx case monitor samsung lcd 17" this pc consumes at idle (wi...