This is how we suspend our hard drives on rubber bands and pencils in the ghetto 'hood of Maryland towns The vibration got on my nerves so here's what I thought could be a neat way to dumpen 99% of the noise. 1) I took 2 identical purple 4" rubber bands (no color preference - just the only ones I had in a set of 2 tha twere the appropriate length) and put them through the holes in the bay where my CD-ROM goes. The other ends went out through similar openings across the tower case. This stretched the rubber band, therefore I had to put a pencil though the loops to keep them that way. Check it out: http://i4.tinypic.com/16iy1yd.jpg http://i5.tinypic.com/16iy3hz.jpg http://i3.tinypic.com/16iy44o.jpg 2) In goes the 160GB of projects and websites Now it's almost floating in the air, with vibrations being dampened by the rubber bands. http://i4.tinypic.com/16iy4k6.jpg http://i3.tinypic.com/16iy58i.jpg 3) Realizing that this might not be the loudest drive, I made one more, but slightly modded, above the finished suspension. This is to hold my main 120GB hard drive, the one where my OS and most of the software is installed. I used longer bands, so they required modding: http://i5.tinypic.com/16iy6q8.jpg 4) This time the rubber band went in one hole, out the other, then it looped around a piece of steel where the bay for another DVD-ROM or CD-ROM is (right under my current CD-ROM), and went back. Once it came through the second hole where it started, a pencil goes in. http://i4.tinypic.com/16iy7w5.jpg 5) Ta-da! This is a better way to suspend your hard drive because there are 4 bands on top and 4 on the bottom instead of 2 on top and 2 on the bottom like the previous drive. But then again, this is my main hard drive with most data, so I'd want it to have most suspension (that's just a lame excuse for "I didn't have 2 more of these longer bands" otherwise I would've done the same for the first HDD). http://i5.tinypic.com/16iysu9.jpg http://i4.tinypic.com/16iyty1.jpg http://i5.tinypic.com/16iyueo.jpg Pros: costs pennies, only used 2 pencils (broke each in half with some brute force added) and simple rubber bands. Cons: hard as anything to install, and took me a good ol' hour and a half. Pretty fun to install it, though =) It's pretty quiet even when defragmenting, with the only noise coming from the back air fan (I'm thinking of unplugging that one since I have my ghetto cooling system in place, but that's another story). (c) vip-ip :: leave credit if you repost this osmewhere online! Comments anyone?