Installation

Installing the X-Swing is nothing short of easy; simply screw the frame to the hard discs and then screw it into place in your computer. The X-Swing can be used with any case, no matter what kind of crazy tool less design it employs due to the face that it has the same screw holes like a CD drive and in the same place.

Testing

While we couldn’t carry out a scientific decibel test, we could harness the power of human ears.

We mounted two drives on the X-Swing, one of which was a 36GB WD Raptor drive that used to sound like computers of old rumbling like a hungry stomach every time something was loaded. The other hard disc was a WD 80GB Caviar SE SATA.

On turning on the computer, I was greeted with silence from the hard discs. Seriously it stopped ALL of the noise coming from the discs. You could hear the sound of the hard discs spinning as you would expect as this product isn’t meant to stop that, but the vibrations were a thing of the past.

These HDD silencers would be perfect for anyone wanting to take that last step at quietening their PC. The first thing you do is replace the fans for silent models, then get a passive CPU cooler, then what do you do? That’s where the X-Swing comes in.

If you are looking to make a silent HTPC then these are probably going to be a safe buy as they remove any hard disc sounds that could be transferred and thus amplified by your case.