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Originally Posted by Brent Hahn
The $$ solution is to go to a laptop and a solid-state drive. But I haven't done that myself, so why am I even saying it?
The things I have done are getting the computer off the floor and walling it off with "micro-gobos," both of which have helped. Poking around inside my Mac tower, it looked like it might be possible (with considerable effort) to decouple the fan from the case, which would probably quiet things down a bunch. If you do that, you're a far better man than I.
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Not so with all laptops and solid state hard-drives....
One of my biggest headaches was dealing with the fan noise of my HP8760w Elitebook which has a solid state hard-drive. The 8760W is a ridiculosly powerful laptop, but mainly due to the video card, and the heat generated, the fan kick would kick on prematurely and loudly! I had to download third party software to control temp and fan speed (notebook fan control), but really the best fix was to upgrade my video card and now it's under control.