Fellow LYNtians please post pictures of ur hdd cooling solutions.....also post ur questions about hdd cooling...

This post has been edited by lolhalol: Jul 18 2006, 06:06 PM

Can't see it, brother

black black, nothing there, dont tell me open this pic then hd will cooller lo!!

black...nothing there....please give usefull infomation

sorry man i dun really know how to post pics yet .. im newbie dude..... can help me out'????

Maybe you need to reduce the photo size to attach.

ok now i know how to post ill post some now

not good...you wrap the under part of the HDD with the soft sponge (don't know proper name) which is blocking heat from dissipating from the chips.

you mean the white coloured ones they wrap gpu's in??

ermm my suggesion is not on top but bottom, i have an external hard disk case and 250gb hd inside, and running over night the hd is super duper hot ( 70-75'C i think, cant even put your hand on it for 2 seconds )

and from that exprience, the bottom of HD is more hot ( the body not the electronics chip board side )

but its hard to and may be not that good to put heatsink there cause

1. scare short curcuit the electronics chip board
2. most of the HD body is come with pattern, so wont have flat surface to put your heatsink

its a good idea but instead of mounting it like that y not just mount it like normal?? itll be better as heat moves upward.... and i see in the UV thread u have a fron intake fan...thatll already help with the cooling...

and like abubin said...the spongge will only block heat from dissipating from the chips. more dangerous actually.

so my suggestion is to take off the sponge and just mount it the way its supposed to be in the case. the front intake fan will help move fresh air over the top heatsinks and also help move air below the hdd and help cool the chips at the bottom

oh yeah....did u use any thermal tape/paste? itll work even better if u did...

not relly .... i just used double sided tape and jip ties... neways the reason i mounting it like this is couze the hd screw holes are not working anymore they are not tight so i have to put it side ways ... any suggestions on alternative ways is welcome.....

not working? do u use the right size of the screw? some screw is smaller.

anyway is there any thermal tape that big size?! where to get it o?

it wasnt thermal tape it wuz jus any old double tape at the edge of the heatsink... onli a bit of the heatsink is coverd by the tape... also the base has twolevels the center is raised so i put the tape at the side the screw is right size but the hole threads are gone ...

erm, this is what i did, just a huge chunk of heatsink to put onto my HDD, havent applied any thermal paste yet.

the bottom part is hotter because the motor is located on the bottom of the frame, so if heat dissipation on top is faster, it can absorb the heat from bottom up.


ps : look out at my siggy as i will sell them soon!!! cheap and practical solution

wah thats huge man..... where did u get that thing???

if the heatsink is thinner and has more fins, it will be better...

wah...the pro has spoken
anyway, allngap...just wondering how much will it b?
n izzit possible 2 make the fins smaller/reduce the height?
oso more fins?

Jus put a 80mm fan under the hdd..the black part where the motor is..ur hdd will plunge to room temp...u better remove tht sponge..its very bad...tht under part was specifically designed to dissipate heat which explains its uneven bottom painted wif black..a good colour for heat dissipation.

This post has been edited by radioactive: Mar 25 2006, 01:12 AM

hey guys u got any good alternatives for mounting a hdd side ways..

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?

if u ask me i wud say put the fan front and down...

BUt , putting it sideways or front is suffiecient engough

i have 2x 80mm FAN blowing thru my 2 hard disk...

how bout static charge n such thing? does it harm HDD?

one more.. does it harm the hdd if we put it vertically?

This post has been edited by ableze_joepardy: May 13 2006, 09:43 PM

i dunt think it harms the hdd if its put vertically...

i think there are a few Casing which puts the HDD vertically....

ya lahh isee before man...sme brands i see hav but they are like server class and cost more than a high end gaming rig plus lcd screen.....easily 5000rm + bt huge and all steel so shipping is goona cost u a bomb too.... the case i like the height of a normal size door and the width is bout 4 feet....

also the silverstone temjin also mount hdd vertically

Hmmm..... tight wif cable tight together small heatsink?? put sponge on the HDD PCB?? it will damage by ESD...... better take out form yr HDD.

@daywalker
hehe already did my friend if u read the rest of the ost i aledy change the positons of my hdd..

anyway y dont peole post pics their diy hdd cooling and mounting ....

erm.. currently my camera sucks at nite.... so i kinda have to wait for daylight ... haha....

mine is only 2x 80mm fan blowing thru the hard disk... no problem so far for me...

wanna look at my solution ??




2x heatsinks sandwiched 3x HDD, i put thermal paste on the sides of the HDD.
and a very low speed 92mm fan blowing in front....

it helps to lower the temperature a lot man...the heatsink is slightly warm only.

Very nice...but how u put into ur chassis?

lol...that is the prob . the heatsink is really big lol..
macdonald

yeah, hw to put into the casing, the heatsink so big....

it exceeds the normal CDROM size by 8mm in total....
if you have a clear space under the floppy area, putting this over there wont be any problem at all......

now that is wat i call hdd cooling man.. except its not easy to find a heatsink like dat... but nice one there man.... ..now people start posting pictures...

just to brimg this thread up...almost dide...so guys no new ideas..any funky new ways to cool ur hdds? i heard somewhere that u can use rubber bands? and hang them like in mid air? that helps? cooling sifus ....help...

just to brimg this thread up...almost dide...so guys no new ideas..any funky new ways to cool ur hdds? i heard somewhere that u can use rubber bands? and hang them like in mid air? that helps? cooling sifus ....help...

my cheapest idea. can tiru tiru la. no need to modify, just chuck in a powerful fan and you're good to go.


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Nice Big Mac by Allngap but it doesn't do anything to cool the hottest part of the disk which is the motor and the chips on the pcb

i agree with sniper man.... if u touch the pcb when the hdd is runnig ..super hot man..... the "casing" of the hdd no need cooling actually...only the the pcb....

This post has been edited by lolhalol: Jul 14 2006, 03:59 PM

damn. no one interested on my design. guess its not a modder's preference

lol dude i think urs nt actually a design leh... no offence thogh....

Is the white thing a fan?
Hardly noticable...

i think thats the fan he put for his ninja leh....

the black one la. down there.cools 4 sandwiched hard disk at 1 go

wah lao u gila kah...4 hdd sandwhich like dat..u got leave space in between anot? sure become like oven inside there leh

no la. before this it was damn hot. now its just 30 degrees lower. some are 25-27 degrees. thanks to the nidec beta V

hehe nidec... sure super noisy one.....bt nice temps u have....

can add a VR to control the speed. noisy? oke la consider triblade. i place it under the cubical and wore headphone. don't really disturb me much

eheh with headphoe ofcousrse man...but y buy nidec and contropl it...i personaly like it load...feel like the pc got more power inside..more garang

you'll go deaf when you try to sleep with your pc on. nidec? cause triblade and practical. i have a delta focus flow 190cfm one. that one is a screamer. still sitting on the shelf waiting to be used. problem is. nidec can perform good cfm below 1 amp. and that deltai have is 3amp. so try its a power sucker

haha ...hard to find fan controller for the delta ehh... i using three deltas in my rig man... 120mm 190cfm..i think same like urs..one front one back one top...after a while u get use to it leh....

i'm used to it la. but then when you turn your pc off then you'll realised that its awfully loud. owh another thing, these fan are dangerous. dun get your fingers cut off

hehe my deltas all have fan grills on both sides..coz i got all my niece running around in my house dangerousr leh...bt fan grills make it noiseier man

Aiyor...ur case is pure brute force lar brudder. It's like killing shooting fish in a barrel with an AK47 lar.

Actually I had a discussion from some of the folks down south regarding some HDD cooling solution but can't reveal here ler...later I get murdered by booest

what is so secretive ??? wanna snipe for more detailssss

this is exactly what i did for my file server hdds in the office using an 80mm low speed fan from a dead psu...works too!!! but only open case...close case and the temps will rise somemore

as for the delta FFBs, try and check if they can run from standstill at 5v or 7v. if they can, consider urself lucky. i have 4 120mm FFB and only one can run at 5/7v.

anyway, no need fan controller for the FFBs... u can actually make a flip switch for it. awake=12v, sleeping time 5 or 7v. thats what i did to my 120 & 80 mm FFBs in my case as well as the other fans in my case. helps hell of alot too.. best thing is the FFBs still push a decent amount of air even at 5v

12v-5v SWITCH

12v-7v SWITCH

i'm using Nidec D08K-12TS4 01 (80mm x 2 intake and blowing my HDD) + 80mm x 1 exhuast (making smooth air system)

Maxtor sata 80g : 29'c - 36'c


using powerlogic artix 5000g, cooling fan cant directly blowing the hdd, else will get better result

guys pictures pls.... post pictures of ur cooling .....
@madman
thx for the info dude...i didnt know ffb's could run at so low voltage.....

This post has been edited by lolhalol: Jul 15 2006, 09:54 AM

running through my photobucket and came across these test I did a while back... temp probe on position as per pic.

At Idle



At Load (defrag)

that note that not all FFBs can run at low voltage...if u have ones that can run at low voltage then ur lucky... coz like i said... i have 4 120mm FFB and only 1 can run at 5v...the rest only can run at 12v... thats why i asked u to check first before deciding to make the switch

This post has been edited by mADmAN: Jul 15 2006, 04:56 PM

Guys, may I know can HDD put in 45� mean like this /. The idea is if I put the 2 hdd like this // and put one fan to blow it at front //I // = hdd, I = fan then the air sure will blow to the pcb area more and also to 2 hdd. please advise........TQ

Don't blow directly on the PCB, can cause static. And positioning the hard disk like that is not recommended imo as the weight distribution is not balanced.

Thanks...will follow your advise. Still thinking of how to cooling down the hdd. Feeling that is good to screw it at the metal hdd case n let the heat flow to the case and put one or 2 fan blow from side..........Is this a good way to do? Pls advise.

Why so bothered about hard disk cooling? They're designed NOT to require active cooling so as long as you have some airflow from the intake fan and not stack them too close together, then its fine.

In fact, Dell ships millions of PC's without active cooling for hard disk so if it's ok for them...it's ok for you.

Yes theres no need to. Just place it at the original stacking place, and put a fan in front of them. Usually cases has the fan mounting.

typo: 8cam = 8cm



This post has been edited by jcheong: Jul 17 2006, 10:35 AM

8cam fan ??

this is one way also...or can stack them with around 5mm/8mm spacing in between them, then use blower to suck air through the HDD

Any fan also enough lar since the point is so there's no hot air pockets stucks in between the HDD stacks niah....blowers are overkill di.

Just like most good things in life (s3x, alcohol, chocolates etc)...too much fan is not good.

bro when is too much s#x not good eh.... anyway dis thread is for interesting ways to cool ur hdd lah bro...

aiya....i like to overkill mar.....

i got a super high pressure blower here, thinking of how to use it only...

actually, if you arent overly concerned about HDD cooling, you can have the fan in between the 2 HDDs:

HDD1HDD1HDD1
HDD1HDD1HDD1
.............................fan
.............................fan
.............................fan
HDD2HDD2HDD2
HDD2HDD2HDD2

putting the fan this way will reduce air turbulence and resistance [thus noise]. i found that i was able to push alot of air all the way to the rear of my casing [to the gcard] with a +/-18CFM fan. HDD2 will suffer a 1�3C rise in temps because of the lack of airflow on the bottom part [mine increased by 1.5/2C].



This post has been edited by Silon: Jul 17 2006, 04:14 PM

thats a panaflo rite ?
anyway, 80/92mm fan will work better on HDD because 120mm has a big dead spot in the middle

yes it is. anyway, ive re-done my intake system. pics to follow when the tmnutters fixes our connection to the world

HDD1HDD1HDD1
HDD1HDD1HDD1
.............................fan
.............................fan
.............................fan
HDD2HDD2HDD2
HDD2HDD2HDD2


mean the fan will blow direct to one of your hdd pcb area.....right?

yes.



because putting the fan directly in front of the grill+dust filter causes lots of noise [like putting a piece of cloth behind a table fan], ive moved the fan futher back to a place between the 2 HDDs. this way, the single 80mm fan can use the additional surface area of the grill+dust filter which was designed for 2. here's an illustration and pics:


HDD1HDD1HDD1HDD1HDD1HDD1
HDD1HDD1HDD1HDD1HDD1HDD1
HDD1HDD1HDD1HDD1HDD1HDD1

<<<<<<<<fan
<<<<<<<<fan
<<<<<<<<fan
<<<<<<<<fan
<<<<<<<<fan

HDD2HDD2HDD2HDD2HDD2HDD2
HDD2HDD2HDD2HDD2HDD2HDD2
HDD2HDD2HDD2HDD2HDD2HDD2








now the fan doesnt suffocate and guess what? GPU temps are down 2C, NB temps are also down by 2C and PWM area temps are slightly lowered by 1C. CPU temps are the same, the freezer64's fan was big enough to suck enough cool air even before i moved the fan further backwards and did not benefit from the extra pressure. HDD temps are up by 1�2C, which was suprising, i was expecting 3�4C. all in all, an excellent mod i must say


edited; errors in typing

This post has been edited by Silon: Jul 18 2006, 06:48 PM

bro y dun u try to pu like one high cfm fan and one low cfm fan in between the hdds? i mean it will be hard to mount bt air will stay longer in the middle and absorb more heat ....
like dis
HDD1HDD1HDD1HDD1HDD1HDD1
HDD1HDD1HDD1HDD1HDD1HDD1
HDD1HDD1HDD1HDD1HDD1HDD1
low cfm fan<<<<Heat absorbed<<<<high cfm fan
low cfm fan<<<<Heat absorbed<<<<high cfm fan
low cfm fan<<<<Heat absorbed<<<<high cfm fan
low cfm fan<<<<Heat absorbed<<<<high cfm fan
low cfm fan<<<<Heat absorbed<<<<high cfm fan
HDD2HDD2HDD2HDD2HDD2HDD2
HDD2HDD2HDD2HDD2HDD2HDD2
HDD2HDD2HDD2HDD2HDD2HDD2

This post has been edited by lolhalol: Jul 18 2006, 07:07 PM

because it will make lots of noise?

my goal is to create a silent rig, ultimate/super cooling solutions are not necessary. im only using a 17.5CFM fan [+the PSU's super slow kinda useless fan] for exhaust; temps are okay and the rig is very quiet

A fan blowing from the bottom towards the HDD can work wonders as well. If you use a 120mm fan then the noise levels will be low

hey guys u know those cooling fans for hdds? that mount to the botom of hdd's...the two fans version or one fan version, which one beter?? they really help or is it a gimick only?