There are quite a few ways ti quiet down a HD.
1 - suspensors. Mount your HD in crossed elastic rubbers, themselves attached to the 5.1/4" bay. There are pre-made suspensors kits around, ask me if you want URLs. (have them at work, not here at home). This is by far the most efficient (surprisingly enough), but avoid this method on hot HDs.
2 - twin plate sandwich. You need 2 alu plates, 2 plates of sound dampening material. Make a big sandwich of all this (with the HD in the middle). Add heatsinks (profiled alu rails will do) on HD sides to prevent overheating.
3 - sandwich AND watercooling. No overhating problem. Need a HD block (D-Tek, Innovatek, aquacomputer, even koolance !), sound dampening material, good ideas for mounting and a solid wallet. Overall the best method.
In any case forget the idea of adding a fan for cooling it, the fan will make more noise than the HD and ruin your silencing efforts...
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