Anyone here use hard-drive cooling fans?

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tnf
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Anyone here use hard-drive cooling fans?

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Is it worth it, for the lifespan of my SATA drive, to get one of those cooling fan units that you attach to it?

I've put together my case such that there is pretty good airflow through it, but the drive itself is in an area that doesn't get much airflow.
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Post by AmIdYfReAk »

Hummm, What drive is it ?
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wouldn't that be a tad noisy? mine'[s bad enough just with 4
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Couldn't hurt, modern HDD's can get pretty hot.
I'm using watercooling btw. Especially my 15K SCSI drive will get hot as hell without cooling.
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Post by plained »

i'd try and place the drive in the airflow path. i usually stand my drives up on a thin side so the two large sides are available to be cooled.

ive not had any failed drives.

i doent like hearing any fans at all thats why i do it.
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Re: Anyone here use hard-drive cooling fans?

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tnf wrote:Is it worth it, for the lifespan of my SATA drive, to get one of those cooling fan units that you attach to it?

I've put together my case such that there is pretty good airflow through it, but the drive itself is in an area that doesn't get much airflow.
big waste of time and money...
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Re: Anyone here use hard-drive cooling fans?

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Freakaloin wrote:
tnf wrote:Is it worth it, for the lifespan of my SATA drive, to get one of those cooling fan units that you attach to it?

I've put together my case such that there is pretty good airflow through it, but the drive itself is in an area that doesn't get much airflow.
big waste of time and money...
You're a big waste of money.
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Post by Sanction »

Just use case fans to keep the ambient temp down.
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Post by primaltheory »

I do, I have an old box hooked up to my network, a raid of 20 20gb drives, they are ANCIENT (back when 5400rpm was fast), and I had 25 but 5 overheated and broke so I now have fans on every other hdd
Why not?

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Post by tnf »

plained wrote:i'd try and place the drive in the airflow path. i usually stand my drives up on a thin side so the two large sides are available to be cooled.

ive not had any failed drives.

i doent like hearing any fans at all thats why i do it.
Any chance of posting a pic of how that setup looks? What are you mounting the drives on?
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Post by losCHUNK »

every case ive owned has had a fan holder right in front of the hard drive bays... you not got any of that ?
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