Thread: Cool harddrive vibration dampener

I had a similar idea and got flamed cause it would cause the hard drive to bounce which would do more damage. If done right, the elastomer bands like that link uses and what I was using seem to be perfect. It doesnt bounce! Is is "cushy"

like adamis said, it's designed to reduce noise, not prevent damage to your harddrive.

In a home PC which doesn't move while on (at least I hope not) the bouncing around of the drive will not be an issue. But in a car those bands will cause it to 'bounce' more than without.

Originally Posted by adamis

Oddly enough just got done with a vibrations controls class final today... Anyway, the vibration absorber sytem would be fine in a home computer. It's design is to quite the noise genrated by the harddrive.

In a car you can get resonance going using a system like that, and if it is resonating at the harddrives natural frequency your going to get into trouble.

Harddrive manufactures are able to design into their parts what natural frequencies their drives will resonate at. In a mobile application they know that the drives will be hit with short hits or vibrations so they design that in. I've used harddrives for over almost two years in my car and never had a problem with data loss. I did however have failures of the read write heads....

Do a search, adamis has it. This has been hashed out several times.