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Old 03-12-08   #21 (permalink)
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Is it just me, or from the pic, it seems that the drive isn't suspended at all. Or if it is, not by much (few mm)
That's all you need, the noise comes with the vibration of the disk against the metal/aluminium bay.
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Beware heat from these hard drive adding the effect of age may cause stretch or even cut from these rubber "suspenders". When one of the string is gone, you don't know what could happen to your hard drive.
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Beware heat from these hard drive adding the effect of age may cause stretch or even cut from these rubber "suspenders". When one of the string is gone, you don't know what could happen to your hard drive.
This method has been used by a multitude of people with good results, so I'll assume you're simply speculating and have never actually tried this yourself...
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I too have seeen many threads on this on the silentpcreview forum... been meaning to try it for a while.
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