Rubber hard drive grommets question

tawd1992 · Post by **tawd1992** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 3:41 am

I've got an Antec 4482B case that comes with rubber grommets for the hard drive, but they're too hard & the hard drive vibrates quite a bit. I was thinking of buying these grommets to replace them & wondered if anybody has used them & what they think of them.

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/8869/ ... vU4U#blank

If these are no good, where can I get some good soft grommets? I'm not looking for complete silence, I just want it quieter. Thanks.

judge56988 · Post by **judge56988** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 9:41 am

I don't honestly think any of those type of grommets do any good at all. They end up so compressed and still transmit vibration - I have tried them.
It's easy to suspend hard drives on bungee or elastic.

tawd1992 · Post by **tawd1992** » Mon Jun 28, 2010 11:13 am

You were right, grommets don't seem to work in this case. I tried some different grommets & they didn't seem to make any difference. My Antec Sonata came with soft grommets that the hard drive lays on top of & this setup works pretty well, but mounting a hard drive with grommets on the sides doesn't seem to work.

I ended up putting the hard drive in a Zalman Hard Drive Heatipe ZM-2HC1. This got rid of most of the vibrations. This case will be moved around some so I wasn't comfortable suspending the drive.

m0002a · Post by **m0002a** » Mon Jun 28, 2010 11:54 am

Sounds to me like you need a new hard drive.

tawd1992 · Post by **tawd1992** » Mon Jun 28, 2010 4:52 pm

m0002a wrote:Sounds to me like you need a new hard drive.

Huh? I've built 2 pc's now with the Antec 4482B case & both had different drives that vibrated the case considerably.

heartsurgeon · Post by **heartsurgeon** » Mon Jun 28, 2010 7:37 pm

you can buy replacement grommets from antec that are soft silicone, and work quite nicely. i have 2 rackmounted Take 4 casses that came with the hard rubber grommets..replaced with silicone grommets from antec (parts), and i'm very pleased with the dampening.

judge56988 · Post by **judge56988** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:14 am

tawd1992 wrote:
I ended up putting the hard drive in a Zalman Hard Drive Heatipe ZM-2HC1. This got rid of most of the vibrations. This case will be moved around some so I wasn't comfortable suspending the drive.

I can't think of a better way of mounting a hard drive if you're moving the case around - what better shock absorber? Delicate electronic equipment that gets moved around a lot in flight cases is often mounted on springs within the flight case, it's the same principal really.
As long as the drive can't slip out of it's suspension harness you're fine. Bungee (shock cord) is probably better than knicker elastic in this respect.

But anyway you've sorted it now...