Airflow over hard drives OK

[jzzcutler]

I have 8 7200rpm HDD's at the front of my case that are heavily used and get pretty hot. I've read lots of other forum answers that say airflow should be front intake and out on top, side, and back. Won't that blow hot air from my hard drives on all the other components? Would it be better to have the side fan push air onto the mobo/gpu/cpu and then the back/top/front fans pull it out of the case? The case is vertical so the mobo is vertical, the heatsink and gpu point up from the mobo towards the side fan, and the hard drives are stacked one on top of another at the front.

 

[CountMike]

Your other parts, specially GPU, are much hotter than HDDs so with good case ventilation drives wouldn't be a problem.

 

[jzzcutler]

Your other parts, specially GPU, are much hotter than HDDs so with good case ventilation drives wouldn't be a problem.

Thanks!