do i absolutely need a hd cooler for a 10k scsi?

[nuttervm]

i just purchased a used atlas 10k in our wonderful (evil on my wallet) for sale forums.

do i absolutely need a bay cooler/hd cooler for this thing? i want to keep it happy, but i also dont want my system to become too much of a raging tornado of wind and noise.

 

[damac]

i ran a web server that was gutted and just had a couple normal case fans, processor with fan, power supply with fan, floppy driver, cd rom drive, pci nic card, pci scsi controller card, and a 10rpm seagate lvd drive and testing it before taking it live as an internet server colocated somewhere I couldn't even notice any heat issues after leaving it on all night. Definately not hot to the touch or anything.

I took the same box live and left it online for a year with no troubles and I recently brought it back home to upgrade my box and sold it. It still worked, etc.

 

[EvilDonnyboy]

if you have good case ventilation, no you don't need cooling with current 10K drives. But they still run warmer than 5400/7200 rpm ide drives. I personally would use a cooler.

 

[Marty]

Not really, but it depends on your case. I have dual Cheetah X15's 15k rpm SCSI drives in RAID 0 without any cooling except a 120mm fan sitting behind the two. So I guess it depends on the case you have.

Marty

 

[Sunner]

Depends alot on the drive.
Im using a Fujitsu 10k U2W SCA SCSI(I love fancy names for stuff).
It doesnt even get warm.
But then, its in a Sun Unipack, which gives it some room, and the Unipack has a built in fan(though a very small one).

 

[weezer]

Hey I even keep my IBM LZX 10K-drive in a HDsilencer, works great .

 

[jjsimas]

I want a link to a HD silencer.

Jason

 

[weezer]

There you go! Link

 

[Viper GTS]

http://www.quietpc.com/silentdrive.html

Viper GTS

 

[shadowscavenger]

http://www.quietpc.com/silentdrive.html

 

[shadowscavenger]

LOL 3 at once

 

[weezer]

Thats what I call service .

 

[jjsimas]

thanks!

Jason