[Cube] Hard Drive Hum

[Chris Lim]

I had the same problem, and it may be as simple as shifting the position of
the cube on the table. Maybe it's a resonance thing, and your table's acting
like a sounding board? Dunno. Not very scientific, but it seems to work for
me

On 1/10/04 2:37 PM, "cubelover at mac.com" <cubelover at mac.com> wrote:

> Thanks to Jesse and Richard for your advice.  I've checked everything over and
> loosened and tightened all the screws (by the heatsink and the grille).  The
> hum is still less but it's not completely silent.  Kind of disappointing since
> one of my favorite things about the cube is its silence.  I'll spend some more
> time working on it this weekend, but I may end up going back to the old hard
> drive.  The background hum/drone is driving me crazy...
> 
> 
> On Thursday, September 30, 2004, at 01:00PM, jmv <mentholiptus at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> Here's what I did to fix it:
>> 
>> http://webpages.charter.net/mentholiptus/hum.html
>> 
>> 
>> Hope that works.
>> 
>> jesse
> 
> 
> On Sep 30, 2004, at 10:30 AM, Richard Clark wrote:
> 
> ok first off you need to make sure the drive is positioned in a way before
> tightening the screws that the drives heatsink doesn't touch the main heatsink
> of the cube, most of the faster drives i have tried in the cube vibrate and
> hum a bit in my cube. After the above mentioned movement the hum was less.
> 
> Richard
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