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Anyone here use hard-drive cooling fans?
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 1:25 am
by tnf
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.
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 1:26 am
by AmIdYfReAk
Hummm, What drive is it ?
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 2:45 am
by seremtan
wouldn't that be a tad noisy? mine'[s bad enough just with 4
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 11:28 am
by random name
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.
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 4:16 pm
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.
Re: Anyone here use hard-drive cooling fans?
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 4:18 pm
by Freakaloin
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...
Re: Anyone here use hard-drive cooling fans?
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 5:00 pm
by FragaGeddon
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.
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 5:19 pm
by Sanction
Just use case fans to keep the ambient temp down.
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 6:58 pm
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
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 7:33 pm
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?
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 8:39 pm
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 ?