Hard drive coolers

[Lonyo]

Coolermaster make a HDD cooler, and I was thinking of getting a couple. They only come with 40mm fans (the max they can have), but since I have 4 5 1/4" drive bays I could mount both my HDD's in these and still have room for CD-RW and DVD.
If I got a couple and put them together (one on top of the other), then fitted an 80mm fan to the back, would it have much of an effect? It could draw out all the hot air that was bein gproduced. Would there be a problem due to the small amount of air being drawn in at the fron though? Kinda like a mini vacuum?

Link to review of the product

 

[mechBgon]

My favorite hard drive cooler is this one. Keeps my 10000 and 15000rpm SCSI drives cool to the touch with a quiet low-rpm 80mm fan.

But yeah, a front-to-back setup like you describe should work pretty well. Still, for the price of two of those hard-drive coolers, you can buy a whole Antec case minus power supply...

 

[lookin4dlz]

I have a case fan in front of my hard drives, sucking the air through them and out of the case and another case fan in the rear of the case blowing external air into the case (and over the CPU). I would think your setup of having the pull cool air from outside the case, blow over the hot hard drives into the case would add a lot of hot air to the case that needs to be expelled!

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: lookin4dlz
I have a case fan in front of my hard drives, sucking the air through them and out of the case and another case fan in the rear of the case blowing external air into the case (and over the CPU). I would think your setup of having the pull cool air from outside the case, blow over the hot hard drives into the case would add a lot of hot air to the case that needs to be expelled!

If that was directed at my system, then not really. The newer SCSI drives run a lot cooler than the scorchers of the past, while the reverse is true of CPUs. And my hard drives are a lot more valuable than my CPU too. At any rate, Turbo's case temperature stays near room temp thanks to a team of five NMB ultra-quiet 80mm fans.