watercooling primary HD?

[DoctaZ]

Hey guys, I'm currently looking to build a water cooling system and have a quick question
for all you experienced watercoolers out there.

Do you bother watercooling your primary harddrive? I plan on buying a WD Raptor 10k rpm HD
and am somewhat concerned that since I will have very little in the way of airflow, since
I'll go with water... the drive will heat up excessively.

Do YOU watercool your HD?? Is it honestly worth it?

Thanks!!

 

[DoctaZ]

I still need help here...

up...

 

[HardWarrior]

Well, water-cooling doesn't replace the need for some air flow. If you have a blowhole it shouldn't be an issue in that heat wants to rise.

 

[daos]

i have used many different types of watercooling, phase change, and other exotic methods of cooling. i have never used a custom HDD cooler though. if you are paranoid and think your drive needs it, then by all means, cool that sucker!

but i have never had any problems with overheating a HDD while using watercooling. even with minimal airflow, i think it should be fine. matter fact, i have dual raptors in a raid array, and minimal air cooling now and they run flawlessly.

 

[AFW]

Ususally not necessary - but if you're going to liquid cooling and have fast-spinning drives (10K+ rpm) in a hot case and hate the noise from screaming mini-fans, then watercooled hard drives can cool things down quite a bit - and make your system much quieter. Apart from running a single Exos on two systems, I have a Koolance PC2-650 case with 4 x SATA drives, all liquid cooled. The Koolance hdd coolers use a thermal encapsulate between the drive and cooling plate. Apart from Koolance, the only other manufacturer of hdd liquid coolers that I know of is Innovatek (www.innovatek.de -- the site in in German only). Both make coolers that fit in 3.5" bays.