Hard disks HDD: reduce high tones during normal operation?
Good evening retro friends
I've tried various HDD IDE 3.5 hard drives on my retro Windows 98 PC. These include Seagate Barracuda ATA IV ST340016A and Samsung hard drives, all with varying storage capacities from 40-80 GB. What's noticeable, however, is that all of the HDDs I've tried emit an annoying whistling noise. There's always a constant high-pitched sound, which is just annoying, as the PC is generally super quiet. So, this seems normal. But is there a way to reduce these high-pitched sounds? The drives are otherwise absolutely quiet, but this high-frequency noise! The hard drive is only screwed onto the HDD bracket provided. It's definitely the hard drive; as soon as I pull out the Molex cable, it goes completely quiet!
I would be very interested in hearing about your experiences.
Greetings C. Bachmann
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The plates are obviously quite old and the bearings and mechanics will no longer run perfectly…
This can lead to increased noise. Describe the whole hardware and the possible connections…
I’d say Ad high:
The easiest way would be to use a CF card. You can adapt CF cards 1:1 to IDE as they support the full ATA standard and therefore you can simply take a 64GB card and connect with a cheap adapter instead of the HDD.
Hello!
Yeah, okay. It is a 40GB ATA/IDE hard drive.
https://tuhlteim-pedia.de/seagate-st340016a-barracuda-festplatte-40gb-ide-ata/
Your Other HDDs probably only turn with the customary 5400 rpm.
But this turns with fleets 7200 rpm.
Therefore the clearly audible high-frequency pipe…
The vibrations of all HDDs are transmitted to the housing and are thereby acoustically amplified.
So you can only try to “entoppel” the HDD better from the housing mechanically by using rubber buffer.
There are special screws for this purpose. But also loose Waste.
You can’t do much more here except this HDD not to use…
Or possibly one Adapt Sata3-SSD into.
I have made this with a 250GB-mSata-SSD and installed it by adapter in a P4 notebook. Okay, there’s only approx. 33MB/s “over”, but it was also more just an experiment.
And I have an empty case for the 2.5″ case format for the future They’re used. A small 2.5″-IDE hard drive (60-80GB) I could hardly use further later.
I also have two older but fleety treasures in use here:
WD Caviar Black Edition (1TB, Sata2, 7200 rpm). These are also clearly audible. However, the access noises (klackers) were even louder and more annoying. I was able to significantly reduce this through a tool by adapting the noise management.
And a friend of mine had two SAS hard drives with 10,000 rpm in his then Dell workstation (with 2 “771” xeon CPUs). This pretty heavy case shook right when these HDDs ran up. And quietly these things were definitely not in operation.
Greeting
Martin
Well, retro PCs of this era have a certain noise level.
If this doesn’t come from vibrations that could be cushioned, I’d be in a good mood now.
Thank you for your answer. Well, I had the following idea and worked out. Got a second PC next to the PC with the high-tone HDD. Now put this PC between or between the second PC and the wall. Now rest or the second PC may damp it. Well, it’s also an alternative solution.
Insulation is always a possibility. 😂
Could be done directly in the housing – but you have to pay attention to good cooling and air circulation so that the insulation does not stagger the heat.
If you get this caught at all, then by acoustically decoupling the plates with rubber “bones”.
But if we’re talking about “Retro” …. You’re whining at a high level: My IBM PS/2 Mod. 95 XP (The ardent tool of capitalism) sounds like a starting tornado with 6 SCSI plates!
Absolutely. Is really whining at a high level 2022. Well, if it just starts to tinitus in the ear or from the high tone, yes, stupid then. yes, I got stuck, just that just the HDDs in itself cause these high tones. Well then rather a little more fan noise, that the whistles overshadowed instead of high tones would be more bearable.
It also comes to the U/min, then 5400U/min, later 7200U/min
My SCSI plates had 10000 rpm, the vibration I got in the grips with plastic and additional rubber buffer.
Well, that’s true. But I sometimes have the tinnitus without HDD’s
“Don’t drink and Harddrive!”
Right! Do you have to drone but tinitus??????😅
Maybe. But for me the THROUGH!!! :
I’d think of the quickness of an insulation of the case.
But why would you even get such a PC? Can’t you start the programs in compatibility mode?
Yes, for the first time, for reasons of memory and nostalgic. Also, it is not possible to start all programs in compatibility mode, that I have tested for Hauf and repeatedly tried in recent years.
The biggest compatibility problem is still the copy protection mechanisms that no longer support modern systems.
Also, old 8 to 16 bit programs are no longer running on all 64-bit Windows systems – compatibility mode.
Is also a reason for having some titles on gog.com for small money to buy.
Interesting, never really understood that with the Retro PCs. But I am also another generation, probably as old as your PC. Sorry for the stupid question. 😅
No problem😅 naja the PC is from 19hund-schützengraben (1995) and I still have 6 years. That was my childhood and I never want to miss it.