I've seen a lot of case modders mount drives vertical using acrylic...they would bent the acrylic to form a U like stucture..turn it upside down..mount the drive to the side wif screws. The silver top facing towards the acrylic

Does it really help with big heatsink on the top of HDD

as far i being doing HDD cooling i realised the best is u have a nice 12CM fan blowing through the HDD with cool air outside of case......

it can cool down HDD by at least 5c .. and the top surface is always slightly warm only ....while the bottom would be a little warmer than top ...

btw im using Sata2 250GB idle and peak temp is 45 to 48 .....

last time when using 80GB ...better I=31 P=36 but there was two same HDDs now only use single HDD for best cooling

so does it really help to have heatsink on top of HDD... or better have it and a nice fan blowing cool air through

This post has been edited by Doom: Mar 25 2006, 10:31 AM

well i saw some one mount his hdd's like me so i guess i was curious and wanted to try.... anyway how to get acrylic????

that will kill your hard disk faster dude. with all the static from the dust short circuiting the board . anyhow my vote goes to all an gap's mod. i saw the old t3 casing that comes with 2 same design heat sink like allngap ones but shorter and more fins. owh its made out of copper. so its kinda bad if you don't have a fan to blow it

This one is ok lar.. Apparently its a firmware issue which SMART over-reads WD2500KS temps up to as much as 18c.

yeah man... allngap's is good idea but the surface of the hdd is not flat.... .. ithink ill go buy a cooldrive or mount my hdd in the 5"drive bays...

hmm i like the idea of putting a huge heatsink on the top , & couldt we mount a heatsink below the hdd aswell with proper thermal tapes and paste to make sure no short circuit ( mind my spelling) and a 120mm or 80mm from the front intake to blow air directly on it ... and btw try to put the heatsink on the side of the hdd where you screw them and then use the heatsink at the side to connect the hdd to the casing ( i dunno u ppl understand or not) as the side of the hdd is quite hot also and could by cooling this part its really srops the temp alot

you mean the side of the hard disk? i saw swiftech's hard disk cooler. it cools by the side of the hard disk. but you can only install it on the cd rom bay

ok i rethought the cooling and now is like dis...


the hdd is mounted to a an old hdd colling device i salvaged from an old server at my dads office. has mounts for thhree 1 1/2" fans. the hdd rails have been removed so that the pannaflo has an unobstructed flow to the mobo and gpu. ill add a 8 cm the the underside of the hdd later when i buy a nmb 80mm fan.....










pls gime yur comments on this....

i also use the same casing like yours. it give problems when i have 3 hdd and without hdd cooler. i arrange it next to each other resulting heat of them....anyway, good idea

Spacing it greatly reduces heat...currently i wasn't using front intakes anymore but i put 1 at the top of the rack and the other at the lowest the ide can reach...my hdd runs under 40 degrees

erh...u need a lil excercise and get ur butt off the PC?
Dunno why you guys all like to make your life so difficult weih.

One 120MM fan, blasting in front of your hardrives make your life much easier and frankly, I think that's the only thing you need.
However, heatsinks from your old Pc's make a good extra but are they REALLY necesarry?

Servers don't got big ass heatsinks sticking onto they top. They stack all the HDD's on top of each other, big fan blowing and they're done. Noisy tho...hmm

hey man this is a moding forum ok. so what if we like to mod ehh atleast got some originality.. if everyone use normal ways then whats the point of modding....

k guys im curently designing a hdd rack that can fit three but i recomend two hdd's that are mounted like in the gigabyte aurora (sideways.) and is made from acrlic.... a fan blows over the hdd's sideways... if u don't get wat i mean, wait for my worklog coming soon in the forum k.... ill also make more if u guys are interested.. i found a shop willing to bend the acrilic and cut it for me..... for dam cheapo...now im designing it( smalll details need to be ironed out ..nedd to be perfect ,soon ill finish.... pm me if ure interested to buy it ill find out the price soon

that is just heat sink rite. does it really help. i thought would be like a fan to cool the harddisc.

both together is best but u need a heatsink that fits well...... most hdd sufaces are not flat and is diffcult to mount a heatsink with goog contact to the hdd.....

get hdd cooler lar very ez oni

This post has been edited by HaM7: May 4 2006, 07:45 PM

er... for me... better buy a cheap chaep system fan and tied it under the hdd

usually the case fans blow in from the front of ur casing shud be enuff to cool hdds down.

since i dont have any casing fan infront,
i just use my stock proc heatsink and fan and just put it on top of the hdd....

hi wanna ask.. which one is better?

1. Put blow fan on top of the HDD?
2. Put blow fan bottom of the HDD?
3. Put blow fan in front of the HDD?