Noisey hard drives
 

A friend at work passed on his series one to me since he was
upgrading. I think TiVo is great (now that I have one) put the hard
drives are loud. He had purchased an extra one off 9th Tee and
commented that's the louder one. I was thinking of getting hard drive
enclosures for them to silence them but I don't want to overheat the
drives either. Has anyone done something like this already?
Recommendations? Thanks.

--
Scott Streeter

http://www.wpi.edu/~ss/

"Scott Streeter" wrote
A friend at work passed on his series one to me since he was
upgrading. I think TiVo is great (now that I have one) put the hard
drives are loud. He had purchased an extra one off 9th Tee and
commented that's the louder one. I was thinking of getting hard drive
enclosures for them to silence them but I don't want to overheat the
drives either. Has anyone done something like this already?
Recommendations? Thanks.

Put it in a well-ventilated enclosure. Take the drive out and
attach it to your PC (if it's a Maxtor drive) and run the Maxtor
drive acoustics setting program (AMSET.EXE) on it. Put the
recorder on a vibration damping mat -- never tried this one.
Introduce more ambient noise to the room, like white noise,
while you are sleeping. Turn your speakers up if the noise is
actually bothering you while watching recordings.

"Bao H. Lammy" writes:

"Scott Streeter" wrote
A friend at work passed on his series one to me since he was
upgrading. I think TiVo is great (now that I have one) put the hard
drives are loud. He had purchased an extra one off 9th Tee and
commented that's the louder one. I was thinking of getting hard drive
enclosures for them to silence them but I don't want to overheat the
drives either. Has anyone done something like this already?
Recommendations? Thanks.

Put it in a well-ventilated enclosure. Take the drive out and
attach it to your PC (if it's a Maxtor drive) and run the Maxtor
drive acoustics setting program (AMSET.EXE) on it. Put the
recorder on a vibration damping mat -- never tried this one.
Introduce more ambient noise to the room, like white noise,
while you are sleeping. Turn your speakers up if the noise is
actually bothering you while watching recordings.


amset won't work becaues it's just the idle "whine" that's
annoying. When I'm watching TV it's fine but when the TV is off it's
all I can hear in the living room.

--
Scott Streeter

http://www.wpi.edu/~ss/

"Scott Streeter" wrote in message
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A friend at work passed on his series one to me since he was
upgrading. I think TiVo is great (now that I have one) put the hard
drives are loud. He had purchased an extra one off 9th Tee and
commented that's the louder one. I was thinking of getting hard drive
enclosures for them to silence them but I don't want to overheat the
drives either. Has anyone done something like this already?
Recommendations? Thanks.

Get a non-noisy hard drive:
http://www.storagereview.com/comparison.html

Select 'Idle Noise' from the drop down and click on 'Sort'.

The Seagate is what I use (it's ~$100 from pricewatch) and I can't hear a
thing out of it. FDB (Fluid Dynamic Bearing) drives seem to be pretty good
for low noise.

Good luck.

Brad

"Scott Streeter" wrote
Put it in a well-ventilated enclosure. Take the drive out and
attach it to your PC (if it's a Maxtor drive) and run the Maxtor
drive acoustics setting program (AMSET.EXE) on it. Put the
recorder on a vibration damping mat -- never tried this one.
Introduce more ambient noise to the room, like white noise,
while you are sleeping. Turn your speakers up if the noise is
actually bothering you while watching recordings.
amset won't work becaues it's just the idle "whine" that's
annoying. When I'm watching TV it's fine but when the TV is off it's
all I can hear in the living room.

Then I'd definitely go with placing it on a soft rubber placemat
inside a well-ventilated enclosure. Front glass door that closes
with ventilated back or something like that -- a box that the
remote control can penetrate, iow.

In article ,
Scott Streeter wrote:

amset won't work becaues it's just the idle "whine" that's
annoying. When I'm watching TV it's fine but when the TV is off it's
all I can hear in the living room.

Do you have extra good hearing, are you under 30 years old?

"Phill." writes:

In article ,
Scott Streeter wrote:

amset won't work becaues it's just the idle "whine" that's
annoying. When I'm watching TV it's fine but when the TV is off it's
all I can hear in the living room.

Do you have extra good hearing, are you under 30 years old?

I'm 36 and my hearing is fine. I guess I can just jam an ice pick in
my ear... :P

--
Scott Streeter

http://www.wpi.edu/~ss/

Doesn't have to do this on a win9x or lower operating system? Doesn't
NT, win2K, and WinXP mess up the drive signature?

Bao H. Lammy wrote:


Put it in a well-ventilated enclosure. Take the drive out and
attach it to your PC (if it's a Maxtor drive) and run the Maxtor
drive acoustics setting program (AMSET.EXE) on it. Put the
recorder on a vibration damping mat -- never tried this one.
Introduce more ambient noise to the room, like white noise,
while you are sleeping. Turn your speakers up if the noise is
actually bothering you while watching recordings.

Put it in a well-ventilated enclosure. Take the drive out and
attach it to your PC (if it's a Maxtor drive) and run the Maxtor
drive acoustics setting program (AMSET.EXE) on it. Put the
recorder on a vibration damping mat -- never tried this one.
Introduce more ambient noise to the room, like white noise,
while you are sleeping. Turn your speakers up if the noise is
actually bothering you while watching recordings.
"jcondon" wrote
Doesn't have to do this on a win9x or lower operating system? Doesn't
NT, win2K, and WinXP mess up the drive signature?

To tell you the truth, I'm not sure. When pulling drives out of
the DVR and putting it in one's PC for whatever reason, it's a
good idea to make a backup using MFS Tools anyway. A
good time to set with AMSET is when upgrading to larger
hard drives. And you don't have to use Windows at all, but a
"lower" OS. You can use DOS or Caldera's DRDOS, the
latter of which Maxtor uses themselves on their drive diag
boot disk.

Your right. When I did my DirecTivo upgrade I just disconnected the
PC's normal HD and booted from the MFS Tools floppy just to avoid any
problems.

Bao H. Lammy wrote:

Doesn't have to do this on a win9x or lower operating system? Doesn't
NT, win2K, and WinXP mess up the drive signature?


To tell you the truth, I'm not sure. When pulling drives out of
the DVR and putting it in one's PC for whatever reason, it's a
good idea to make a backup using MFS Tools anyway. A
good time to set with AMSET is when upgrading to larger
hard drives. And you don't have to use Windows at all, but a
"lower" OS. You can use DOS or Caldera's DRDOS, the
latter of which Maxtor uses themselves on their drive diag
boot disk.