Zalman Hdd heatpipe and thermal paste been tried?

[AyashiKaibutsu]

I've been reading about the zalman harddrive cooler. Most reviews mention a very poor interface between the heatpipes and metal blocks. They also speculate on taking the thing apart and applying thermal paste to it; however, none of them actually try. I was wondering if anyone around here has tried, and what were the results if they did?

 

[Baronz]

My zalman heatpipe VGA cooler requires you to put thermal paste between the aluminum and the heatpipe, and it works really well.

I would assume if you put thermal paste on it that it'd improve the performance quite a bit.