HD temp in Silent Drive enclosure....

[Viperoni]

Giz, I just pulled off the "feet" off the top and bottom of my drive, and it slips into the enclosure nice and easy.
I just sealed it up, and I'm formatting it right now.
2 minutes in, it's @ almost 30c.

 

[Viperoni]

Hmm, after running scandisk and a couple of formats and couple of surface checks, the temp still didnt go over 39.5c!
Looks like I'll be set, but I'm still looking for a nice Fujitsu 10-20gig to find it's way to me

 

[Zucchini]

alrighty.. the site works ordered myself a 1 inch thick flat skinned noise absorber, 23 bux total i think. NRI or whatever is noise rating right?

 

[zuffy]

what is the key word I am suppose to search for in www.mcmaster.com for the sound absorber material?

 

[Zucchini]

i think i searched for acoustic foam.

 

[GiZzO]

Try this viperoni:
The air is usually so stagnet around the 5 1/4 drive area, what you could do is buy a quiet 60mm (adda at pham) fan or 50mm. Move your silent drive as far back to the middle of the system on that drive bay but still keep all 4 screws, mount the silentdrive, at the very lowest 5 1/4 drive since there the most structure stiffness, less tendancy for vibration. Be creative and figure out how to mount this fan behind the drive right in the air path of the heatplates. Moving your drive as far back as possible is gonna probably leave more then 1 inch space from your front brazel/drive cover and you can line that up with acoustic foam.

HAve this fan sucking air blowing to the back of the system, the extra air presure might even cool your CPU down some, depending on your case it should be blowing right at it.

 

[Viperoni]

Well, I've got a temp sensor in the front of the case that holds 2 40mm fans, and it sits right under the silent drive box, so it'll move air underneath it.
Not too much help, but help nonetheless

 

[Cubensis]

Does that work ?
If yes, why ?

 

[Viperoni]

I dunno if it does, but airflow can't really hurt cooling