HDD noise, both sides caddy?

[ondrik]

Hi, few days ago I replaced original 40GB hdd from my T41.
I bought WD2500BEVE. But when I replaced it I was quite disappointed with hdd noise (to understand, it's not so terrible, but I mostly work at night and with fans off, and only sound is from hdd).
I compared with original and difference is serious.
Finally, I've found with WD on my IDE2USB cable that when i put my finger on hdd it's much more better.
It works only for one side, unfortunately for top (which is not covered by caddy, so I cannot put something between it).
Solution would be to have caddy covering hdd from both sides, is there someone?
Or any others ideas?

Thanks

[ajkula66]

Welcome to the forum!

If the difference is as noticeable as it sounds to me, you should return the new HDD for a refund/replacement. There is absolutely no reason for it to be any noisier than the original one, quite the opposite.

Just my $0.02