[CUBE] New HD

[Richard Clark]

On Sunday, March 23, 2003, at 09:31 PM, Meirion Roscoe wrote:

>>
>> As an aside, I know that we are all great fans of the super silent 
>> Barracuda
>> IVs, but that humming vibration Cube I had problems with was caused 
>> by a IBM
>> Deskstar. I have two GXP 60 Deskstar, a 40 and a 60, bought a year or 
>> so ago
>> when they were considered the bees knees in terms of speed and 
>> comfort but,
>> boy, are they whiney and cause vibrations. I noticed this even in a 
>> tower.
>>
>> The humming was cause by the drive in a Cube on a metal legged desk 
>> that
>> unfortunately hit resonance point. Pick it up, the noise disappears, 
>> put it
>> down it hummed like mad. Tightened up all the Torx screws [ thank you 
>> to the
>> little bleeder for that hint ]  but it made no different.
>>
>> Anyone else had this problem? Shame the clean looks are going to have 
>> to be
>> spoilt by a thick rubber mat until I can afford a fishy HD.
>>
>> I am wondering, given the lack of significant different in the 
>> performance
>> of 5,400 and 7,200 rpm drives, and given the advantage of the 5,400 
>> being
>> cooler and supposedly longer lasting, whether it might not be better 
>> to
>> stick with them?
>>
>> John
>>
> I have a Western digital 120GB HD with an 8Mb cache an it really is 
> the dog's penis in terms of silence and heat output.  My cube is 
> standard apart from a RAM maxing though so take that last comment as 
> you will.  I did a similar thing to you (used a 30GB firewire external 
> drive, with a lot of help from this list, for the transfer) and it 
> really is quite straightforward.  Carbon copy Cloner is a wonder app 
> considering it's free.
>
> Put it simply, if a banana fingered gibbon such as myself can do it, 
> anyone can!
>
> Cheers
>
>
> rossi

I posted a picture of what i did to get rid of my humming hard drive WD 
120 in the gallery at www.cubeowner.com  it might work for you.

Richard