How to dampen sound vibrations on any QNAP NAS

[@matthewardill4297]

Genius the drives have been driving me bats going to have to give this a go!

[@a3n3a42]

Interesting video! Two questions: -After relative long time use, the tapes are not affect by the heat produced by the NAS? -which tapes did you use exactly (your Amazon link isn't pointing to the ones you've used)?

[@xprojectxproject5102]

That amazon link is wrong in your description the tape from Amazon is only 12mm and not 16mm like it in your video. Which double side tape did you use please? I would like to buy the same as you have but the link provided is only for 12mm tape and this is very very thin and not good at all tape sorry.

[@inlandchris1]

What about the top of the HDD rack? Tape it too? And what about the backplane? Vibration can transfer to the backplane and that backplane will vibrate to another HDD causing it to fail early. The foam tape is a good idea, needs expanding though.

[@EyesOfByes]

Getting like a kilogram of that sticky tape for my fridge compressor that is vibrating like cruiseship diesel generator

[@robertbates4357]

Thanks this worked perfectly!

[@ivangoya3195]

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[@aabooj]

Great idea, how is the ts-664 with you so far ? I wnat use it mainly for plex and load it with 6 × 22tb wd red pro

[@Epistemophilos]

I did exactly this, even on the top side. It had almost no effect on the noise.

[@dreamybetty]

You're *way* overestimating what foam tape with a mere 1.2mm thickness (less than 0.05in) can do to reduce HDD vibrations. There's certainly *some* effect, but it will be minimal when compared to the optimal solutions for sound and vibration damping. Just like most other life-hacks, this looks like content creation with a grain of truth and not an actually thought-out idea by itself. For NAS - especially when you're using HDDs with higher total storage and thus requiring more platters - the simplest solution (and also the one I would recommend to most people) would be to boot the device to another room where you won't be annoyed by its noise generation. If you have a wired connection that's great, but even WiFi is okay. Unless the WiFi in your home is really poor for some reason or another (thick walls, too much interference) you could put an USB dongle for less than 15 Euro into one of the connectors on the NAS and it will work well enough. Wired is of course always the best option for both speed and reliability, but if the choice is between blessed silence in your office/living room/bedroom and slightly slower data transmission speeds via WiFi, I'd take it unless the task is critical. But if noise and vibration dampening is really the only way to go in your situation, then you need to be aware of two things. One, while the NAS cases are often constructed in a way that don't make them into resonators for the HDD vibrations, that doesn't mean that they are damped. When the NAS case stands on a table or the floor, these vibrations will carry over and create all sorts of bother, because the plastic feet of the case are in no way sufficient as dampers. Two, your HDDs need to be cooled, which means that as the NAS blows air out back with its fan, air also has to enter at the front, where the case usually has several small openings. The biggest way to reduce the vibrations generated by the HDDs is to put a foam mat (or pad) between the NAS and the floor/table/whatever it stands on. A thickness of 20mm (about 0.75in) should be the desired target - more is possible although not as widely available commercially. I would personally also consider sealed foam or another material entirely, because the cheap noise dampening foam will sooner or later dissolve into a dusty annoyance to clean up. Thus I personally went with a weather-resistant 20mm neoprene foam mat that's considered for use in cars and the like. For years now it has stood the test of time and cleaning - either with a duster or a damp rag is easy enough. But that's only half of the story. It still leaves the NAS case itself unobstructed, which provides no noise damping at all. With some work, the remaining noise can be greatly reduced. Out of a spare cardboard box I built a "hat" that fits over the NAS with cut-outs for the back (fan, connectors) and the front (air inlets), then I padded the outside of the hat with the same self-adhesive 20mm neoprene foam mat. The result may not *look* very impressive when you had a glossy case to look at before, but it's amazing what a mere 20 Euro roll of foam mat - 150 x 30 cm, which is about 0.45 square meters or close to 5 square feet - can do to the noise generation of multiple annoying HDDs. I still wouldn't put that sort of thing in my bedroom, but it became quiet enough that I could get used to and ignore the background noise when it's under the table in the home office. Please note that the above is considered to be a life hack for *home use*. In this setting you never run into the issue of reaching the HDD temperature limits and active cooling is actually far from a requirement. When you dampen a HDD case, you also add temperature insulation, which keeps in the mechanically generated heat much better than a very thin metal case. From practical experience that results in maybe 2-3°C higher temperatures with the fan at minimum speed, but at higher usage rates (enterprise level load) the cooling of a dampened case can become an issue. That's as far as life hacks go, whereas the *really optimal* solution for a home user would be a DIY NAS, where you start with a silent PC case that supports individually decoupled HDD mounts. It's quite the niche market and not a lot of manufacturers offer these products nowadays. If you're not looking at a huge 8-bay NAS solution, then you can get 2-6 disks into one of the BeQuiet silent cases that support the HDD cages.