Universal Hard Disk Drive problem discovered

Did you know you can now get duct tape in colors? But called "Duck" Tape (Ace Hardware).

...Jim Thompson

Zero. I pulled the noisy drives, swaddled them in bubble-wrap, and jammed them back into the bays. Hard drives don't need cooling, do they?

John

At my age I don't hear fan noise, and there are three computers at my feet and a laptop on the desk ;-)

...Jim Thompson

I used to walk down our street at night in the summer. With windows open I could hear the 15khz come screaming out of the houses.

At the end of my tour in Korea, they did a medical check including a hearing test in a booth. It seemed like I was in there a long time. When I was told to come out, the tech guy said my hearing was completely off the chart except for one tone range in one ear where the machine could measure it. He was hoping for a 'perfect' score and said in 10 months of doing this all day, I had the best hearing.

I doubt that its that good any more.

You use screws? Bit of a perfectionist, aren't we?!

When you buy a new hard drive (in the EU), why dont they include mounting screws?

What is the average number of screws holding your HD in, mine is about

martin

Ran out of duct tape.......

martin

many variations on "duck(t) tape". Used for sealing ducts in HVAC around here

martin

martin

I've got an unused fireplace, I'm going to put 1 or 2 computers in it, seal it off to get rid of that "office" enviroment noise.

martin

That will come in handy if the computers ever catch fire...

Seriously, though, how will you stop dirt from entering at the top? The damper has big gaps around it. Perhaps one of those spark arrester caps will help.

I was So Glad when I got old enough not to hear the scream from unsynced TV monitors in studios. But I was on the beach campsite a couple of months ago and could hear a piezo igniter clicking 25m away, cos the fridge had run out of butane. Thats the problem being an ex sound maintainence engineer, you listen for the noise, and not the music. Think its called "professional deformation"

martin

On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 23:55:26 +0200, martin griffith wroth:

I ran my last PC for years with a hard disk sitting on a plastic drink glass outside the case close enough that the power and data cables could reach. I don't think I ever had a PC with the cover attached.

Jim

I've always assumed that US 'duct tape' is what we call 'Gaffer tape' here in the UK.

Hard wearing stuff with an awesome adhesive and a PVC coating ?

The UK name originates from the use of an 'old gaffer' on most film sets to 'fix things up' - usually involving tape.

Gaffer..

1. An electrician in charge of lighting on a movie or television set.
2. Chiefly British. An old man or a rustic.
3. Chiefly British. A boss or foreman.

In my live sound days I always bought the most esoteric colours possible since it was then unlikely that the band we were providing sound for would claim ownership of the roll in event of contest !

Graham

They come with the case kit.

Normally 4 unless it's a quick swap, in which case zero - friction normally does the job. Oh - and I have some in front of me lying on the desktop that have been around for a while entirely outside the case on a long ribbon from a 'test PC'. Makes it easier to swap them around. ;-)

Graham

I don't right now either. Always mucking about with the guts.

Graham

Gaffer Tape?

martin

My favorite film/TV supply item is called "snot tape". It's essentially adhesive tape without the tape- just adhesive and backing.

That and "Reel Blood", which comes in several variations (old, oxygenated, etc.)

Seems a touch pricey at $130 US/gallon, but probably few movies outside of the slasher genre need that much fake blood. ;-)

You can also buy aerosol armpit stains and grass stains.

It's fun having a movie industry in town.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

I still remember my old days as a step by step telephony equipment maintainer. You stand talking to a visitor, and suddenly, you stop, walk clear across an entire room of noisy switches and equipment, and busy out the bad switch (one out of several thousand in the room.) You just heard it...

Charlie