Acoustic Management enabled = Quiet AND cooler?

[Malogato]

If I enable acoustic management (to slow down and quiet my drives).. will they also run cooler?

I've got a few drives in a personal server toppling 50c all day long.

The server design unfortunately doesn't allow for "close by" air-flow [such as a cooldrive] as the drives are close to each other and in 3.5" bays...

I'm thinking if I could.. "underclock" them, they'd run cooler. Yes, I understand there'd be a speed hit, but I'm more concerned about reliability boosting for free.

 

[Poiquiop]

The worst thing for your drives is to have them sitting next to each other, as in less than an inch of air space between them. The most effective way to cool would have to be hard drive coolers. I'm sure you can find a decent pair for under 20$ after taxes at your local computer store.

 

[Malogato]

The worst thing for your drives is to have them sitting next to each other, as in less than an inch of air space between them. The most effective way to cool would have to be hard drive coolers. I'm sure you can find a decent pair for under 20$ after taxes at your local computer store.

I'm quite aware of the problem of lessened airflow, that's why I am asking this question.

There's no space for harddrive coolers.
There are 4 3.5" bays. There are 4 3.5" Drives.


It's a dell PowerEdge SC420 server.

This is why I was asking about the acoustic management.

Also, there are 1,000s of server products being offered with many drives jammed closely together. - They have good airflow, but this is very very common..

 

[DougLite]

Over 50C? You are wise to be concerned. Are they Maxtor drives? Switching to Hitachi, Seagate, or WD units will likely get the drives into the 40s. Getting a different case may also be an option.

 

[Malogato]

Over 50C? You are wise to be concerned. Are they Maxtor drives? Switching to Hitachi, Seagate, or WD units will likely get the drives into the 40s. Getting a different case may also be an option.

actually, none of them are maxtors. I don't own a single working maxtor drive.
Sure, I own about 30 dead ones...
They make great paperweights.

Not trying to "switch drives".. - hence the "Free" part of my question. I'm sure there's a lot I could do if I wanted to fork out cash. I'm looking to cool the ones I have, but the design of the dell sc420 is not very conducive (sp?) to airflow, as the only fans in it are in the PSU, and under the HOODED giant heatpipe-sink over the celeron 2.53