Quiet Hard Drive Enclosures - Hard Drive noise with silent hard drive enclosures
Quiet hard drive enclosures can eliminate loud hard drive noise and silence your noisey hard drive. Silent hard drive enclosures can bring you a quiet hard drive by installing an enclosure.
Hard drive noise can drive you crazy, especially in digital audio workstations. The loud hard drive noise generated by a noisy hard drives can be almost intolerable. Seagate figured out this was a problem, and their newer Barracuda drives are almost silent right out of the box, largely due to a new fluid-bearing design. This combined with a quiet hard drive enclosure can give you silent hard drives. These drives are now common in audio workstations. If you have a noisy drive, you can mount it in a special audio baffle unit that fits in a spare 5-1/4” drive bay such as the original SilentDrive. This quiet hard drive enclosure can help you have a silent hard drive.
You don’t have to suffer through a loud hard drive and hard drive noise. Noisy hard drives are a problem of the past. Get quiet hard drives by installing silent hard drives enclosures. Note that heat builds up quickly in an enclosed space. Using an enclosure works best for 7,200 RPM drives without overheating them until the newer enclosures became available. Inexpensive, stick-on thermal monitors can indicate the drive temperature, which you can check against the manufacturer’s temperature ratings to make sure you’re not cooking the drive. You don’t want to fry your hard drive to eliminate hard drive noise. Noisey hard drives can become quiet hard drives with the right silent hard drives enclosure. 10,000+ RPM drives are much more difficult to silence but it can be done. Be realistic about what kind of track counts you need; a slower drive might create a more pleasant working environment.
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