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A little unsolicited advice, but try putting some small gaskets between the screw and harddrive, it eliminates a lot of noise.

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I just got a new case, ironically my old case was near silent ( i could hear the physical whirring of the disks and that's about it).

My new one has the little rubber gaskets on the mounting screws, but the drive is mounted against a mounting sleeve (?) sort of thing. I pull a little adapter out of the HDD cage, mount the drive into that (with the rubber gaskets) and then put the adapter back into the cage. I think the noise is the adapter on cage rattle.

It doesnt happen that often (so i think it is only 1 drive doing it), so I havent bothered to look into it. But with moving parts youll always have SOME noise.

Ah, I've got the same kinda thing, the carts on my case have rubber bumpers that separate it from the rest of the case. Maybe get some of the rubber furniture nibs and see if you can stick em in there between the cage and case.

Vibration also kills spinning disk prematurely; I believe one of Backblaze's earliest blog posts mentions this.

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