HD cooler question...

[uchau]

Been doing some research on HD cooler and I notice that there seem to be 2 kind. One had fans in front of the HD and blow air across the top and bottom of HD. Another has on that attaches to the bottom and blows air away on the bottom only. My thinking is does the bottom attachment do anything? Whenever I touch my HD it's hot on the top not where the chips are at. So is there any other 3.5 mountable Hd cooler I should consider? thanks

 

[Apex]

Well, there's also the ones that include a heatsink of some sort to spread the heat out. Those tend to work the best.

http://www.nexfan.com/34/115.htm?117

There's also this one which seems to be very popular:

http://www.nexfan.com/34/116.htm?117

It's also marketted under the Vantec "Ultimate Hard Drive Cooler" name.

 

[dalilama]

link

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

http://www.bestbyte.net/Product.cfm?ProductID=367&CategoryID=8&Keyword=

how about this one? it's much more in my price range

 

[bozo1]

Globalwin I-Storm baybeee!

If you had multiple drives stacked, I would think the ones with the fans on the bottom would just blow your heat down onto the next drive.

 

[conlan]

This is the one i use, cheap and effective. This one and This one work well also, but will cost you some more bank.

 

[Apex]

The Ice Storm works very well for one that doesn't have a heatsink. It cannot touch the heatsink ones in terms of performance, of course, but if you want to go without heatsink, that's the way to go. It's quiet and works reasonably well.

If you're going to spend money ($18-25 or so), you really might as well get one with a heatsink. If you're going to go cheap ($10 or so), then any number of low profile or fan only ones will work.

Much of it matters what kind of HD you have and how your case cooling is. I'm on a couple Seagate X15's (15,000rpm SCSI drives) and I just have a small heatsink on each, no fan at all. They run at 39 degrees C (using a thermistor taped to the hottest part of the drive using Bergquist's Bond Ply thermal transfer interface material). The max the Seagate X15's are certified for is 60 degrees C.

 

[UNLTuba]

Along these same lines, I'm looking for hard drive coolers for each of the drives that are in my server (3.5" drives, 5.25" bays). It has a closing front bezel door though, so having fans on front to exhaust the air would be pointless. What do you all recommend that doesn't exhaust the air out of the front of the bay? Thanks...

 

[Apex]

Actually, I believe they're intake, not exhaust. In terms of the kind of heat most harddrives make (discounting really REALLY hot harddrives like the 1st gen 10k rpm Cheetah's), as long as you have a heatsink of some sort and a little bit of airflow over them, you shouldn't have a problem.

What's your internal case temp and what kind of HD's do you have?

 

[UNLTuba]

Regardless of whether they're intake or exhaust, having a closing door on front defeats their purpose. Actually, I'm mainly looking for hard drive coolers because the only bays that I have to mount the drives in are 5.25" bays. I figure why get cheap mounts when I can get usefull coolers? Anyways, let me know...

 

[Halz]

I've found this hard drive cooler to be very effective. The fans, however, are some of the loudest in the machine (doesn't help that they are right on the outside). It seems they are 'trying' to hard for no reason whatsoever.. I'll be re-soldering the wires to the +5V to slow them down