How can I muffel the high pitched whine from my Hitachi hard drive?

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MikeS

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My Hitachi 7200rpm 80gb drive is making a really annoying high pitched whine. Is there any way to dampen it? I just 5v'ed all my fans so it's a lot more noticeable now. If I can fix this my computer will be very silent
 
Those mainly just help with vibration. I have a WD that has a high pitched whine as well. I get headaches from it. I suspended it with rubber bands and that didn't help at all. Maybe some of those acoustic mats could help?

I am interested to know as well...
 
Rubbery things absorb high frequencies. You could even use stuff like dynamat/fatmat meant for car audio. Just make sure that whatever you use, the drive (and case itself, of course) are not blocked from being sufficiently cooled.
 
I have the firmware upgrade for that problem,
Hitachi doesn't have it on website.

I have same drive as you, (I have 4 ,and they all did it)
they call it the crying cat .
They said 6 models have the problem.
I found it .
http://www.envynews.com/forums/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=23195

This guy says his mewoed like a horny cat !
They say it's caused by the Idle time function .
This file was provided by a forum member and is presented as-is. While some users have found it to solve their problems,.

check this out .
http://7k250.euweb.cz/
http://www.envynews.com/forums/?showtopic=5999

Here is the SATA firmware.
http://www.dawsonscreeknews.de/firmware_s.zip
 
Do you have any cooling on the drive in question? Sometimes they whine when they get too hot.
 
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