Installation

In all honesty, fitting your hard disk inside the Quiet Drive and then installing it in your system is simplicity itself, but let's run through the process nonetheless.

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Step one (assuming you have a Serial ATA device) is to connect the provided power and data connector to the drive.  If you're using a Parallel ATA drive, you will instead need to use the Molex connector provided, but will need to supply your own ATA cable (You should be able to use your existing one to do the job just fine).

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Next, you need to slip your hard drive into the bottom half of the inner enclosure of the Quiet Drive, making sure that the screw holes line-up properly.

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Next, place the top half of the inner enclosure of the Quiet Drive over your hard disk, and screw it up (The enclosure that is, not the installation process!).

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Now comes the time to fit the two foam inserts to the inner enclosure, this can be done by peeling off the protective layer from the top and bottom of each insert, and placing them over the top and bottom of the inner enclosure.  These inserts are slightly adhesive, but not hugely so, thus don't panic if you don't get them on the enclosure straight first time around as you can easily peel them off and try again.

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Next we insert what we have so far into the bottom of the outer enclosure, where you will find that the Serial ATA connectors sit snugly atop the foam insert for the unit - Make sure everything is the right way round (i.e. with the metal cutaway and thickest foam insert where the cables run through) at this point however, otherwise you run the risk of trapping and potentially damaging the Serial ATA cables.

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And we're done - Pop the top of the outer enclosure onto the unit, and screw it all together. Voila!  In all honesty, this was the hardest part of the process - Holding the two halves of the outer enclosure together tight enough while screwing it together can get a little tricky, and isn't helped by the soft metal used and seeming lack of any real thread for the screws, which makes getting them in place and straight a little frustrating.

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Now the unit is built and ready, pop it into a spare 5.25" drive bay, screw it in place, and connector the Serial ATA extension cables to the cables hooked up to your motherboard, and you're all ready to go.