You listen to music with a hard drive? Har-de-har!

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You listen to music with a hard drive? Har-de-har!

Of course not. He listens to data.
Yuk, yuk, yuk.

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You could try reducing the storage capacity of your drive.
As the amount of data stored increases, so does the load on the motor increase, needing a larger more noisy motor.
Or maybe you need to distribute your data more evenly on the drive to keep it balanced and thus quieter.
You also might have to many of the heavier "ones" stored on your drive instead of the lighter "zeros". Less heavy metal and more easy listening might help.
As a last resort you could just turn up the volume.
To increase S/N ratio it is often easier to increase the signal than it is to reduce the noise.
I realize that this reply has been of no use to you, but I had to try to see if it was possible to be as annoying as some others here. Did I win?

Try asking on the slim devices forum

There are less smart asses over there :-)

Less SMART ASSES...means MORE DUMB ASSES?

I have to agree. For example, Grand Funk Railroad and the Chicago Transit Authority are loaded with "ones". Makes for a noisy hard drive. Stick with things like Bluegrass music. Lots of zeroes. Less noise.

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Less SMART ASSES...means MORE DUMB ASSES?

Good one :-)

rappahannock,

What you are probably hearing are the fans and the CPU case magnifying all of the internal sounds just as a speaker cabinet would. What you are looking for may not be 100% silent, but very close...you may need to look around for a hard drive carrying case that is fan less with enough cooling capacity, i.e. cooling fins or metal. You may end up mounting a Zalman hard drive cooling solution internally to another hard drive carrying case...you need to find one large enough to pull it off.

You are going to have to call Zalman and see if they make an external hard drive carrying case solution for their HD cooler.

http://www.zalmanusa.com/
http://www.zalman.co.kr/usa/product/code_list.asp?code=019

And so on...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=silent+fanless+hard+drive+carrier+&btnG=Search

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I have to agree. For example, Grand Funk Railroad and the Chicago Transit Authority are loaded with "ones". Makes for a noisy hard drive. Stick with things like Bluegrass music. Lots of zeroes. Less noise.

I am interested in where you got your ones vs zeros music data. I along with many of us real audiophiles would like to see this source of important data.

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