HDD Cooling Solutions, pictures and Q&A
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 Mar 24 2006, 05:01 PM
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    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 |
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May 21 2006, 12:09 PM
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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. |
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May 21 2006, 07:46 PM
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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...... |
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Jul 14 2006, 07:26 PM
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what is so secretive ??? wanna snipe for more detailssss
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Jul 17 2006, 12:01 PM
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QUOTE(jcheong @ Jul 17 2006, 10:34 AM) 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. 8cam fan ?? typo: 8cam = 8cm    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  |
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Jul 17 2006, 02:50 PM
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QUOTE(sniper on the roof @ Jul 17 2006, 01:35 PM) 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. aiya....i like to overkill mar.....Just like most good things in life (s3x, alcohol, chocolates etc)...too much fan is not good. i got a super high pressure blower here, thinking of how to use it only... |
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Jul 18 2006, 01:48 AM
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QUOTE(Silon @ Jul 17 2006, 03:48 PM) actually, if you arent overly concerned about HDD cooling, you can have the fan in between the 2 HDDs: thats a panaflo rite ?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].  anyway, 80/92mm fan will work better on HDD because 120mm has a big dead spot in the middle |
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