SCSI + pelteir = doable challenge??

[mpevah2]

ok, so I'm being driven insane by the constant hum of my Atlas 10K2 and saw a hot deal over in the guess where forum Linky for a peltier. Now I've been looking at hard drive enclosures for cooling and silencing but I haven't been able to find one that supports 10K drives, most don't even support 7200 (Actually I thought I found one that works on 10K drives but I couldn't find the link again).

So here is my plan. I've seen people making HD enclosures from copper sheets so I thought what if I made a copper enclosure with some insulation around the drive and little rubber feet to support the drive. The peltier sits on top of the HD with a heat sink of some type (I've been looking at the zalman VGA heat pipe) connecting the peltier to the outside of the enclosure. Then I guess a panaflow or some type of near silent fan.

Questions:

I read that most of the heat comes from the sides of the hard drives. Is this true?

Are there any heat conductive gels?

Think the above solution will work?

Thanks!

 

[mechBgon]

Can I do an end-run around the peltier question and suggest a Seagate Cheetah 15k.3? They use fluid bearings, and both seek and idle noise are quite low (I have one, it's even quieter than my Cheetah X15-36LP) and of course, being a current-generation 15000rpm drive, they're darn fast They also produce the same heat output as Seagate's 7200rpm ATA drives do.

As for the peltier setup, one word: condensation :Q

 

[cleverhandle]

Yeah, assuming you make more than minimum wage, the time you'd spend on the peltier would add up to a 15.3 and would probably be a pretty sketchy solution anyway. I have the 15.3 Cheetah, and I never hear it above the few undervolted Stealths/Panaflos in my case. And like mechBgon said - damn fast.

Now, if you just want a project, then go nuts. I think you'll have a hard time engineering a full enclosure with good heatsink contact, though.