Need HDD - really silent contraption

[MonteToast]

Hey guys,

 

i´m running out of space and i want to get some mass storage for some backups and and more games.

 

Currently i´m using 2 Samsung Evo 250gig in Raid0 in a H440. (Dont need to mount the new HDD)

I´m a student so my budget is quite limited

 

I really want to have it silent, that´s why i`m struggling to get an HDD. So i ask you people, which HDD would you consider the most silent drive. Also i want to know if there are some weird contraptions or mods which make it inaudible.  

If you have any suggestions or pictures or something please let me know.

 

thanks peps

[WoodenMarker]

WD Reds are one of the quietest hdds available it's the reason I use them. 

You can suspend your hdd's to reduce vibration with elastics or foam molds. I suspend my own drives in open-cell foam molds. 

 

Here's an older one in some different cases: 

It should be fairly easy to do it in a H440 due to the basement and movable drive sleds.

[MonteToast]

This looks weird

how much is the noise reduction, from your hearing. 

[tiberiusmoon5]

Check this stuff out:

https://sugru.com/

 

It dries and becomes rubber :3

[WoodenMarker]

5 minutes ago, MonteToast said:

This looks weird

how much is the noise reduction, from your hearing. 

Vibration resonating with the case is usually most of the noise from a hdd. I can barely hear my drives when I try to get the room as quiet as possible and I'll probably never go back to hard mounting a hdd if I can help it. 

 

You need to quote a post or tag a member or else they won't get a notification you replied to them.

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, WoodenMarker said:

WD Reds are one of the quietest hdds available it's the reason I use them. 

You can suspend your hdd's to reduce vibration with elastics or foam molds. I suspend my own drives in open-cell foam molds. 

 

 

But does the cost of it really justify its silence?

[MonteToast]

1 minute ago, WoodenMarker said:

You need to quote a post or tag a member or else they won't get a notification you replied to them.

thanks for the advise 

[WoodenMarker]

1 minute ago, dexxterlab97 said:

But does the cost of it really justify its silence?

To each their own.

I care immensely about the acoustics of my system. 

 

It didn't cost me that much anyway. Reds aren't that much more expensive and I had ~1000 open cell foam bricks lying around from packaging. 

[MonteToast]

10 minutes ago, WoodenMarker said:

To each their own.

I care immensely about the acoustics of my system. 

I already stuffed my case with pyramid foam wherever i could.

[WoodenMarker]

1 minute ago, MonteToast said:

I already stuffed my case with pyramid foam wherever i could.

I'm not sure if that would help much. When it comes to absorbing sound, foam isn't much better than any other dense material and you'd need a pretty thick layer for it to do anything noticeable.