Hard Drive Cooling

tboneuls

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I have an old hard drive in a comp that is getting a little too warm. I also have a spare 80mm case fan. What would be the best way to position the fan? blowing on or away from the HD and on the top or on the bottom?
 

BG4533

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I have my drive positioned in the middle of an 80mm fan, so the fan blows across both the top and the bottom.
 

Avon

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Same here. I used to use a Cooler Master Cool Drive with a 10,000rpm SCSI disk. Lately I've been experimenting with cooling and noise and relocated the drive to an internal 3.5" bay behind an 80mm intake case fan. The drive is now reporting temperatures through SMART that are ~7 degrees Celsius cooler than with the Cool Drive, which surprised me... Also, the whine of the HDD spindle bearings is now almost completely muffled by the case.
 

Texun

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Originally posted by: tboneuls
I have an old hard drive in a comp that is getting a little too warm. I also have a spare 80mm case fan. What would be the best way to position the fan? blowing on or away from the HD and on the top or on the bottom?
Try This You may need to move the drives around to make it work but this does the job for me. I've raised it a little since the pict was taken. The gap is about 3/8" now.

Hope this helps