Reduce HDD speed (reduce noise)?

Question

Hard disks

Are there utilities to reduce the noise of the HDD?
Segate, Samsung.

Answer 1

If there is, then you should ask technical support. Unofficial utilities are risky to use.
IMHO it is more reasonable to do soundproofing at the level of the case.

Answer 2

There is such a thing - AAM, google for this term and you will find utilities that can change the level of noise emitted, but I immediately warn you - to the detriment of performance. And also see if the noise you want to get rid of (because ordinary hard drives are rarely heard in operation by themselves) is caused by vibration, then an insulating gasket between it and the case will help you.

Answer 3

Programs like Victoria and MHDD allow you to manage AAM, although not all hard drives support this.

Answer 4

I have been interested in this issue for a long time. It was possible to set a wreck (still DOS) on old seagates by changing the performance / noise parameter, but then it was removed from the site and it no longer worked on new series of hard drives. As it turned out, the patent for Acoustic Management was owned by IBM, now respectively, by Hitachi. I suppose that in the firmware of hards, somewhere there is still an opportunity to tweak it, but no one will give guarantees in the officiality and, accordingly, the correctness of the method.
PS: In the faq on the Seagate website, to the question "is it possible to reduce noise at the expense of performance?" an amazing answer was given - “we produce only high-performance hard drives!”

Answer 5

From hdparm -h:
-M Get/set acoustic management (0-254, 128: quiet, 254: fast)
Is it?

Answer 6

IMHO if you need to reduce noise, then there is no solution better than silicone washers. Cheap and cheerful.
There are a lot of 5" rivers that reduce noise - but in essence it's the same thing.
If the requirements are very tough, you should consider buying a low-noise drive.
It can be either any modern low-speed drive - or just a good 7200 model.
Seagate Barracuda ES.2 is quite a tolerable option.If the
money is a lot, and you don’t need a lot of space, then you can generally buy an SSD.

Answer 7

Turnovers of the disk, I believe, there is no chance to reduce. Otherwise, manufacturers would have to develop very tricky electronics to ensure smooth operation at any RPM.
Buy one of these to pacify a particular drive. The rubber pads under the screws helped me quite well , although the effect decreases over time.