I have a small hard drive that is making a constant high pitched sound that is typical of the drive, and not very noticeable to the average person, but I have pain induced noise sensitivity. I am curious about how to calculate damping potential. As an initial guestimate, the frequency is very near to my maximum audible range and likely around 12kHz-16kHz. It is a little higher than the switch mode power supplies that I can also hear if it is dead silent in the room, although the drive is a higher amplitude. Addressing the noise with a solution is probably beyond the scope of anything I would actually do, but knowing how to solve it is far more interesting to me. (ELI15 )
Could, but then I lose portability like with mounting it in my laptop stand.
Everyone here seems to want to solve everything but the actual abstraction of wanting to know a way to calculate a thin liner material to add to the portable box that is not reliant solely on empirical brute force.
If someone else asked, I’d be saying the same things. It is easy to assume people can replace such knowledge with empirical testing and observations, but when the physical efforts become harder, working smarter has value to me.