hardrive cooling?

[Guest]

This is my first time building a pc and i am getting a WD 80gb harddrive with an 8mb cache. So i was wondering whether i should get one of thoes harddrive cooling systems like the one from antec, and if so, which one.

My case, the Antec PLUSVIEW1000AMG, has room for an 80mm fan right behind the harddrive, so should i just use that?

 

[lhgpoobaa]

The 800JB doest get very hot.
Normal case airflow is usually sufficient.
Having the drive mounted behind the front fan slot is even better!

In my case ive got room for two front fan's directly infront of the hard drive enclosue, but i find just the air draw through the front due to the rear fans is sufficient to cool them quite well.

A specialised drive cooler is just overkill

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[Guest]

ok great. I take it a harddrive fan is no diffrent from any other case fan

 

[Scotty35]

Yes they can be different but you have a HDD cage which can take an ordinary 8cm case fan (get a nice quiet low cfm fan), the others are of a different design to case fans, they generally are either in a 51/4" bay rack mount with tiny 4cm fans in the front blowing fresh cool air in over the drive or they screw onto the underside of the HDD and is very slim but blows warm case air over it.

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[lhgpoobaa]

err, depends what type you mean.

A standard front casefan with a drive behind it is FINE for ide drives!
but therea re also specialty drive coolers on the market.

You can get 5.25" bay ones where the 3.5" drive is mounted behind 3 40mm fans, or clip on fans that sit ontop the drive and blow air down onto the top of it.
All, mind you, completely unnecessary as modern IDE drives can live with quite low airflows.

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[SoopahMan]

Can you recommend a brand name for the clip-on type cooler?

I have 2 3.5" drives sitting under a CD drive, all in one fairly cramped drive cage. Moving to different case type would be a last resort for me so that clip-type cooler sounds very enticing, but I've never seen anything except the 3.5" -> 5.25" cooler type.

 

[lhgpoobaa]

Well i know that thermaltake make a range of hard drive coolers of different designs...

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[SoopahMan]

Well I'm looking for something that doesn't require moving the drive into a 5.25" bay; I don't have any to spare. All the Thermaltake solutions appear to require this.

 

[TomaHawK]

most HDD´s don`t require extra cooling, tho extra cooling will probably let the drive live longer, but why would someone these days want to let a drive live for 4 years when it will be replaced in max 2 years? >



p.s.: won`t they?

Beat the heat with the USB-Powered Fan

 

[Flinx]

Because there are still old PC out there for kids under 8, Grandma's over 70 and Satellite mods, and tinkerers

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[TomaHawK]

!!!! i happen to use one of them old pc`s it`s an amd k-2 333, with 64mb ram and 4.3 gig HDD running win2k, bit slow but stable...it`s for my gf (so i know what you mean, AND she`s not under 8 nor is she anywhere near 70 hehehe, but i am a kind of a tinkerer) 😛

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[SoopahMan]

Actually, I build my machines to last. My last computer, including its hard drive, lasted 5 years and I even gave it to my girlfriend, unmodified, and it's still running like a champ.

In this case, I spent just $900 on:

Biostar IDEQ 200N (nForce2 and Via SATA RAID controller)
2 Raptor HDs
Samsung DVD/CD-RW
GeForce4 Ti4200
Athlon XP 2500
2 512mb 333Mhz DIMMs

The thing is a scream machine... I can't believe the performance. And that $900 will last me 5 years, I gamble.

So, I really am looking for a good cooling solution for my hard drives. They're the only part in my setup of concern, but they're of great concern. Any suggestions?

 

[blah]

in my per-tik-u-lar case (computer case that is😉 i just yanked the front CD hole cover, put HD on two screws on side of CD bay and it cools by the air drown in the case by the power supply fan (i don't use any extry fanz, noise is my "enemy") it worked on DeathStars for 3 year now and my Stars have no Death at all

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[TomaHawK]

*get´s into his x-wing, flys into the yanked-in-hole and drops two whatever-those-fancy-torpedos-are-called into the
DeathStar-HDD-trench*
yeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaw!

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[blah]

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