QD 2.5 and WD Velociraptor

[nightmare devil]

Hi there, I own a 150GB of that model, too, and am thinking about setting it up in a quiet drive.
how much would you say does it help to silence the drive? (especially in seek mode)
Cheers,
Alex

[sumo]

Helli Alex,

To teach a Raptor how "she" can be silent is realy hard. But its possible to silence them a little bit with the quiet drive. In IDLE and Normal Mode its ok, but the seek mode of this drive is hardcore. My suggestion for a Raptor is to do a double out of a small an big Quit drive, than you get the best silent solution for this rocket.

Cheers
Alex

[nightmare devil]

hi alex, this is alex...
well, to be honest, the velociraptor surprised me. I had my doubts about the noise but actually the drive is quite a silent one! at least when in idle mode you can barely hear the drive. Only when seeking it's noisy. I guess I'll try the QD 2,5 and that will be it. I have a fan blowing towards the HDD cage (the middle front one inside the Antec P183) and I have a better feeling cooling the quiet drive holding my (veloci)raptor. If I'd put the small QD into a big one and mount it to 5,25" then there's about no air flow around it.
cheers, alex

[Fuzzilla]

Hi folks, I haven't forgotten about you. I'm insanely busy, but still working on modding the QD 2.5" to hold a VelociRaptor without dropping the inner shell. I just wanted to post up that I'm still on it.

Best Regards!

[nightmare devil]

good news!

[Shinigami]

Ok, keep up, I wodner how you plan to modify it. I mean the width is a fit, isn't it? It is only about the height? Foam is always ncie, onls 3 sided contact is already fine is my guess so far. Might need to buy one for my personal use and test =)

[nightmare devil]

Hi guys, I just built the velociraptor into a quiet drive 2,5". Everything went ok - I just had to leave out one of the thermal pads. I hope that's going to be no problem (concerning temperature. We'll see.
Only bad thing is that the QD hasn't screw holes on the bottom so you can't mount the case that way, only over the screws on the side of the case. :-/

[kater]

What I did to fit my Velociraptor 150GB into SQD - I put all components (both aluminum shields, both thermal pads) and the drive in and simply used zipties to hold the unit together. No screws necessary See the pic. The unit is tight, silent, cools perfectly.

My second drive (2,5" Hitachi) fits right in with no mods, as you can see