You could put one of these 56 ohm resistors between the fanmate and the fan...

Don't overlook the 92mm PC Power & Cooling Silencer Fan, which undervolts nicely and becomes extremely quiet...

...It usually hides in the closet and its only connections are power cable, ethernet cable, and printer cable (it's also the apartment print server)... A couple of curiosity-questions: Do you keep the closet door closed? If so, does the temp in the closet eventually get pretty hot? Also, how do you...

I might be the only one, but all the Panaflo fans I've ever used exhibit some form of clicking behavior. It really only matters in a very quiet system though. I stopped using Panaflo fans some time ago, and would be surprised if they had changed very much since then. 8) Just out of curiosity, what ...

I might be the only one, but all the Panaflo fans I've ever used exhibit some form of clicking behavior. It really only matters in a very quiet system though.

I stopped using Panaflo fans some time ago, and would be surprised if they had changed very much since then.

Sounds exciting edwardng! We'll be waiting for your next posts. :) MikeC, that's disappointing info about the noisy Momentus drive. I had really high expectations about its acoustic characteristics. How well does the Momentus drive perform speedwise? I was building with those 4200rpm Fujitsu laptop ...

Wow! 10,000rpm in a 2.5" form factor, that's amazing. I wonder how much noise those little guys will make?

zuperdee wrote:Well, it looks like the Nexus 92mm and 120mm fans have finally appeared on their website. The 92mm fan page is currently just a placeholder, but the 120mm one is there!!...

Awesome. I've been waiting for these fans to finally become available. Thanks for posting this info.

Hopefully the upcoming Nexus 120mm will arrive ASAP, so it could be included too!

In your position I suppose I would use the (expensive) single enclosed 7k60... but that's just me.

Looking forward to hearing about how it works out!

Ralf Hutter wrote:So does that mean that you'd be able to capture HDTV directly to your HDD? Aren't the broadcasters scared shitless about this scenario?

Hi Ralf,

Just curious here: Why are you thinking that broadcasters would be so scared about this?

Quicker access time, very likely yes; higher throughput, very likely no.

I hope you will post the results of whatever you end up trying!

That's just it though lol... The dual platter is 3db louder, which, by some people's measures, is literally twice as loud, and maybe even in the realm of the Samsung I am running. Is the SilentDrive really that good?!? -Ed BTW al, thanks for your help so far! I think so, as long as the drive runs c...

Nicely done m0002a, I like your execution on this. Very interesting. Thanks for posting the details and your experiences.

Thanks for posting that info flyingsherpa. Matches with what I've heard from a Seagate insider as well.

edwardng wrote:... al, do you know?

-Ed

No, sorry! Are you going to enclose the drive? If so, the difference likely won't matter anyway, thankfully.

SEAL - Heavenly... (Good Feeling)

Anyone have any experience with the Travelstar 5K80? I'm looking at the 40GB model; it's rated for typical idle and load of 2.1/2.6 bels and maximum idle and load of 2.4/2.8 bels, according to this. That's means it never even hits 30 decibels! -Ed EDIT: After reading about the place, I noticed that...

Seal wrote:yeah from the research ive done i think people like the papst 4412 the most out of all the 120's

just curious, will i get 100% garunteed start up all the time at 5v?

All of mine (many, many of them) have always started up nicely at 5V.

That does look interesting... I would love to try one of these out!

trpltongue wrote:... So...If you need a good quiet desktop case, turn the Sonata on it's side.

Russ

Thanks for the info Russ! Good to know.

Thank you very much for the useful info edwardng! Much appreciated.

Douglas Bailey, BEE-YOO-TEE-FUL! Excellent workmanship.

About those stacked SmartDrive enclosures: Are they just sitting loose inside the computer case? Or if not, what method did you use to firmly secure them inside there?

But is there any advantage to using more expensive 7200rpm notebook drives?... For both 5400rpm notebook drives and 7200rpm notebook drives, I've found the total drive noise to be effectively diminished to negligible when the drive is SilentDrive-enclosed and the enclosure is foam-mounted. There is...

...I've never used one before, but is the only way to mount them in traditional cases via a SilentDrive enclosure? Also, would they be able to cope with the heat of 7200 2.5 drive?... http://us.st7.yimg.com/store1.yimg.com/I/directron_1778_276009936 No you can also mount the notebook drive in a tra...

Hi mindfields,

Thanks for sharing your experiences, and welcome to the forums.

Welcome to my world Mike! I've been trying to get folks to try using these recent notebook drives (with IDE adapters) for a little while now, especially the 8MB cache versions. Forum member aderyn was the first one I read about here that did this, which inspired me. They really are the quietest opti...

Jan Kivar wrote:...Have You tried IBM/Hitachi Feature Tool? It might be able to set SMART to enabled for the drive...

That is my suggestion as well.

Arcanthis wrote:http://board.member.cgiserver.net/Crazy ... ackdepth=1

Due out late Feb'04, might want to hold off if you're thinking of getting a ZM80C...

Thanks for the info Arcanthis!

This is very interesting info, thanks! I'm sure that many of us here will be quite interested in your continued experience with this, including if you can try with 100uF and see if it works even better for dampening.

Welcome to the forums!