Hard Drive cooling idea

PaNsyBoy8

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I was browsing around and i saw a website that had a heatsink and fan for a hard drive cooler, it was about the same size the radeon HSF on their retail cards. I was wondering if this works.
 

whalen

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I don't even see why you would need a HD cooler, other than for the coolness factor...If your case has decent air flow, the HD would be among the least of my worries.
 

QuackQuack

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I agree. I used to use a HD cooler for my 7200rpm ibm but there was no point to it. I can see HD coolers being used for high speed SCSI drives though.
 

PaNsyBoy8

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i have a 10,000 RPM SCSI, but there's no vent hole, but the IDE's with 7200 RPM has blow holes, am i missing somethign?
 

Mday

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the vent holes are to maintain the balance inside the drive for the read\write heads so they don't crash... blocking it is a bad thing. your drive must have one.
 

PaNsyBoy8

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<< the vent holes are to maintain the balance inside the drive for the read\write heads so they don't crash... blocking it is a bad thing. your drive must have one. >>



I guess its time to do some looking.
 

Nerdwannabe

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stick some old pentium heatsink on the HD. That should help some. :D

If you insist to get a quality HD cooler, get the one with big heatsink on it.