Ultimate Hard Drive Cooler $19.99 New !

[DrFatal]

I just picked up two of them today!
Keep those Atlas 10k II drives cool!!!!!!!!
Link here!

 

[Gustavus]

DrFatal
Thanks for the lead. I'll try a couple of them to replace $30 HD coolers I bought from a supplier in Computer Shopper whose fans had sleeve bearings. Both failed in less than a year -- the coolers, not the HDs.

 

[ghouldini]

Looks kind of similar to this one 3DFXcool HD cooler that I bought for $22. Mine has a lifetime warranty.

If anyone uses one of these on an IBM Deskstar 75GXP, you will need to drill a hole through the heat sink to free the air hole on the hard drive which gets covered up by the sink when installed.

 

[ChrisIsBored]

I use these babies on all my SCSI hdd's.. in my RAID setup too... they're sweet and keep everything nice and cool...

 

[ETLA]

u guys should try these...they are cheaper and work better...I have 2 in my case now...and the new laptop cooler is dope(keep those PIIIlaptop cool)....www.2ishock.comThe site is still beta..just email the guy..he'll hook you up....

 

[stingbandel]

ETLA: how much did it cost you? Thanks

Darno

 

[zfalcon]

Those aren't that good. The small fans tend to wear out rather quickly. I replaced a bunch of them with coolers from PC Power and Cooling.
http://www.pcpowercooling.com/products/cooling/drive/bay-cool/index_bc3.htm

They are a bit more expensive, but they use 1 large fan and can hold three drives.

 

[richiew]

um..

Try these HD coolers

they look just as good, but half the price.
i've never bought them, so i dunno if about the build quality.

 

[Fiddy]

Here's a heavy-duty one if you can find it, Macase Herminator

 

[StealthX32]

c'mon guys, your drives aren't really THAT hot...I have a full height IBM SCSI-1 drive, 1 GB...and it's hot to the touch, but I've run it for 8 odd years, and it's fine. Heat will be the last problem you encounter.

 

[zfalcon]

StealthX32,
sometimes the heat really is a problem. You may not notice since you have an old SCSI-1 drive.

I had some Ultra 160 10,000 RPM SCSI drives that would crash the computer after a while and refuse to be recognized after a reboot. After cooling them down, they would be detected by the SCSI controller again. After putting them in the pcpowercooling bay coolers, I have had no such problems.

 

[CarpeDeo]

But stealth does make a point. If you're just running the run-of-the-mill 75GXP or diamondplus, I don't think heat is ever a problem with your drives. But then again, if you have falcons ultra wide scsi's, then it's a good investment since $19.99 is $10.00 cheaper than I've ever seen it.

 

[dabuddha]

if im running 2 ibm 75gxp's in raid 0, is cooling necessary? if so, that Cooler seemed really cool. Has anyone used that before or heard anything about it?

 

[TuOni]

good stuff here good post!!