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Can I Stack 2 SATA Drives>>How Close?

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I am building my computer now and I am installing 2 Hitachi 160GB SATA drives in my Enermax case.

There is a 3 bay HD cage. I installed the first HD in the top bay and I was installing the second HD in the second bay when I saw that the top one would actually be resting on the second HD. Is this safe? If I install the second HD in the third bay that drive is actually resting on the bottom of the HD cage. Is that considered safe or can something get short circuited.

On both drives, the bottom has the exposed circuitry so my concern is that if it does make contact with the cage or other HD is it safe or is it a very bad idea.

Thanks for any input and advice. I am stuck at this point of my install.
 
Bad idea ;)

rig up a new drive cage?

dont have the drives touching, especially dont have the circuit boards touching anything

and try to get at least a 1\2" between the drives and a fan in front of them as well, drives do radiate heat, and radiation obeys the inverse square law

if they are too close, you get very little airflow, thus poor cooling from convection, and thus get hotter, the hotter they get the more heat is disipated through radiation, only if they are that close to each other, they are dumping most of it on each other
 
How about one IDE and one SATA drive next to eachother? They are perhaps 1-2 cm away from eachother.

Am pretty much forced to do that because otherwise I have to have the RAPTOR to touch the bottom of the drive cage. I do have a fan blowing on them but since the SATA aren´t shielded how big chance do I get to have interference?

They seem to work all fine now though...
 
as far as the physical drives go
there is almost no difference between an IDE and SATA
the spindle speed is the big variable
but for all intensive purposes, it just the total heat output of the HDD you need to worry about, the 10,000rpm be the hotter typically

as far as the question goes
the distance is just one parameter
the airflow & the air temperature are bigger ones

http://www.amdmb.com/article-display.php?ArticleID=105
 
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