Question for P182 owners

[MrBelvedere]

So i have a newly built system w/ a P182. I have 4 SATA HDDs all in the lower cage. Needless to sya there's a good bit of wire clutter and all in that cramped little section of the lower compartment. Will that one middle fan provide enough cooling, or is it a good idea to add an intake fan in front?

 

[MarcVenice]

Combined with the PSU, it should be enough. Could check your HDD's temps using speedfan, mine hover around 30c.

 

[hnzw rui]

Hmm, mine's hovering at around 48-50C with switch set to low (feels like summer where I live). Will try bumping that higher, but if it doesn't do any good, I'm also in search of a a silent 120mm fan that's better than the TriCool.

 

[MarcVenice]

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article63-page2.html

there's a few good 120mm fans that are better then the tricools, on low the tricools aren't that bad btw, but at medium/high there are definately better fans that push the same or more CFM whilst creating less noise. 50c isn't to high for a HDD btw, but I wouldn't want them much higher. My ambient temps are 20c btw, if that, maybe 18-19c. One of the HDD's barely runs though, the samsung spinpoint t166 500gb is known to be cool running as well.

 

[hnzw rui]

Hmm, I'd say ambient temp is around 24-28C. I'm really not comfortable with the 50C as I've had two hard drives that have gone kaput which I suspect is due to heat.

 

[DarkRogue]

I have also filled up the lower HD rack with a Raptor 150 and 3 500GB WD Drives. I have the angled connectors and did some funky routing to get them out of the way but anyway, I have a Nexus fan (lol orange fan) down there and my 4 drives are usually around 32-35C which is very chilly. My Raptor 74 is sitting by its lonesome in the upper HD rack next to my 8800GT but that shouldn't be too much of a problem since I put on an Accelero and Turbo Module.

 

[RKS]

I Dremeled my P180 and put a fan in front of the 4 HDDs in the lower cage. I am using the Sunbeam Rheobus to control the lower and well as the upper HDD cage fans.