Pat-Roner
Weaksauce
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I have the drive on the side bracket. One of the spaces is used for a 120mm fan + cpu radiator (its a Corsair H50), and the other holds only a single 3.5" HDD). Which means that it swallows all the hot air that comes from the 290X, since the air can't go anywhere else. And I do not have any sort of fan for the hdd because i didn't have enough space. So, it is on its own.
Idle temperatures (room temperature since I just started the computer)
Load temperatures (after playing Fallout 4. I have a pretty aggressive fan profile for the gpu).
The problem you encountered on the NCASE S1 is exactly the same I encountered on the FT03. Picture to display why:
HDD do not need lots of airflow... they simply need not to be enclosed anywhere that can trap heat. In this case, the FT03 is fine unless you run a power-hog... and I did. With the GTX295, and even though I had several fans, you simply would heat up the case, and then, the case would heat up the hdd's, and there was nothing to solve such a problem because the hdd's had no active ventilation of any sorts. Even more, hot air couldn't even raise or go anywhere. It simply got trapped there. In the end I sold the case because, to me, it was unacceptable. And also, the case was a mess in all aspects. But that is another story...
So, the hdd problem can be solved by working around two solutions
a) You put them far away from heat sources. And if you do, nothing else needs to be considered.
b) If you want to put them close to heat sources, hdd's require some sort of ventilation.
For reference, I used to have some HDD lying around my desktop, but plugged in (since I have an open air bench-table), without any ventilation of any sort, and their temperatures NEVER went 5-7º C above room temperature. So, on their own, they do not create enough heat to cook themselves. Which is why it is unneeded to actively cool them unless you severely stack them and/or they are close to heat sources.
With that said, I believe there is a simple solution for the S1, which is simply to find another place to install the drives. As of today, seeing that M.2 drives are getting more and more common... even a single 1x 2.5hdd should be more than enough for most. Still, the problem you have on the S1 is exactly the same on the FT03: even though little heat gets into the hdd bay... how do you dissipate? You can't. And little by little you heat up the drives. Even if its only 10W that is leaking inside.
Well, that's pretty decent load temps. My 3.5" and ssd mounted in the same position is roughly at 50c in desktop and 60c under gaming.