Could someone please fix hard drives.

I’ve relegated the Synology to the basement. I can still hear it grinding at night.

There are special brackets for mounting HDDs, where there are rubber rings interposed between the mounting screws and the bracket, in order to prevent the transmission of the HDD vibrations to the chassis, which usually greatly amplifies the HDD noise.

With such brackets the noise is usually reduced a lot. There are some computer cases that are advertised as silent cases and which include such brackets by default (e.g. from Fractal Design).

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OneOffAsk 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Someone did, but they're still slightly more expensive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive

	▲	akimbostrawman 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I would not call 2-4x "slightly"

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wkjagt 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I found that putting them on something soft helps a lot. It seems to be mostly vibrations that are transferred to whatever it's sitting on.

	▲	rollcat 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Try styrofoam, a couple layers of soft packaging wrap, thick cloth, etc. My other hack is WOL + auto-suspend for my NAS. Wakes up for backup jobs, goes back to sleep when done (and there are no SSH sessions left open). Very hacky but works flawlessly. (Usually.)

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myself248 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's probably coupling the vibration into whatever shelf it's sitting on, which then transduces it to the air. Set the unit on some foam, it helps a lot.

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trq01758 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

In your case I would probably buy a couple of floral or similar foam bricks and try to decouple device from whatever surface it is standing on.