Product Reviews
- “The Quiet Drive is a pretty useful little enclosure that can provide its owner with some much needed quiet and a little bit more cooling.”
- Pro Clockers - “Fitting the Quiet Drive is simple nuts-and-bolts work, and it had a dramatic quieting effect on the hard disk, reducing the amount of whirring and graunching to the merest murmur. It also reduced the amount of buzzing from the case, presumably because there was less mechanical vibration being passed to the case.”
- “The whirring of even the quietest hard drives can become noticeable when the rest of your PC is silent. This silencer surrounds your hard drive with a wall of metal and sound-absorbing material that also acts as a large heatsink, keeping your drive cool even under constant disc use. It screws into any DVD drive bay.”
- Windows Vista Magazine
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Quiet Drive Internal HDD Silencers
 | Quiet Drive 3.5 Internal HDD Silencer [Discontinued]  (1 customer review) - Review | €36.17 |
Quiet Drive 3.5" Internal HDD Silencer
Building on from the success of the Silent Box, Scythe have now released the new 3.5" Quiet Drive. This new hard drive enclosure offers better noise reduction properties than its predecessor at a cheaper price!
Quiet Drive 3.5 Internal HDD Silencer
The reason the performance of the 3.5" Quiet Drive has increased compared to the Silent Box is because the 3.5" Quiet Drive uses a "Quadruple Core Structure", QCS. The hard drive is first encased by aluminium plates. On the top an bottom of those plates two thick thermal pads are used to help transfer the heat away from the hard drive and onto the top and bottom of outer casing which is also made from aluminium. Scythe call this "Double Heat Diffusion Method". Click here for an exploded diagram.
Around the inside edges of the outer casing is soft foam which reduces the vibrational noise generated by the hard drive. It also helps to quieten the high pitched whine that emits due to the spinning platters inside the hard disk.
On the outer of the casing there are four metal rectangles. These rubber mounted clips allow the Quiet Drive to be attached into a spare 5¼" drive bay, they also aid anti-vibration.
Quiet Drive 2.5" Internal HDD Silencer
The 2.5" version of the Quiet Drive is basically a smaller version of the 3.5" that has been designed specifically for 2.5" laptop hard drives. Once installed in the Quiet Drive the hard drive is then placed into a spare internal 3.5" drive bay.
The reason Scythe have done this is to allow the use of laptop hard drives in desktop PCs. This is because laptop hard drive are generally quieter than standard 3.5" hard drive due to the platters rotate slower, allowing the user to benefit from the noise reduction features.
Quiet Drive in a Quiet Drive!
For those customer who want to totally silence their hard drive then it is even possible place a 2.5" Quiet Drive inside a 3.5" Quiet Drive! This makes virtually all 2.5" hard drives near silent, in fact the only time you hear the hard drive is when you place your ear directly next to it!
With the ability to virtually make any hard drive near-silent and given the fact the cooling properties of the enclosures mean it will cool any hard drive available up to and including 10,000 RPM hard drives, the Quiet Drive is an excellent hard drive silencing solution that needs serious consideration.
Specifications
| Model Name | Quiet Drive 3.5" |
| Model # | SQD-1000 |
| Manufacturer | Scythe Co., Ltd. Japan |
| Dimensions | 145 x 198 x 36.5mm |
| Hard Disk Type | 3.5" Parallel & Serial ATA |
| Case Bay | Standard 5.25" Bay |
| Weight | 860g |
| Core Structure | Quadruple with Double Noise Reduction, Heat Diffusion & Anti-Vibration |
| Cooling | Double Heat Diffusion Method + Thermal Conductive Sheet |
| Mounting | Float Mounting Method |
| Warranty | 24 months |
Customer Reviews
Quiet Drive 3.5 (1)
John Price - Posted: 19 Oct 2009 15:45 (9/10)
The noise from my hard drives was driving me nuts, all that bumping and grinding (the hard drives are OK but the Antec case which hadn't any form of noise/vibration dampening was acting like an amplifier). Now the hard drives are inside two of these Scythe cases mounted on rails in the 5.25 drive bays and they're virtually inaudible. These are some of the best products I've ever bought from Quiet PC, they've extended the life of my PC case significantly.
One slight criticism is that clamping down the outer case is a little fiddly because it's a tight fit compressing the foam and rubber inside and the holes & screws which need to be aligned are very small, need to be careful to avoid screws going in cross threaded. Otherwise 100% delighted.
