Hard drive cooling

[eli]

I will be getting a WD raptor, and a 120GIG storage drive. I am using an Antec Sonata case with the two 120mm fans. Is this enough cooling?

 

[mwarps]

Yes.

 

[eli]

I was just wondering, becuase the 120mm fan behind the hard drives only sucks air through the front of the case, doesn't push it.


Thank you

 

[eli]

does this even cool the Hard drives one bit?

 

[Spewn]

If there's air flowing over them, then I'd imagine it's cooling them down. My HD used to get a bit hot before I mounted an 80mm fan in front of it blowing air accross it, now it's never even warm to the touch.

 

[weapon--]

you could always bolt some of these onto the HDDs to cool 'em off:

hard drive watercooling.


back to the sane world...
the HDDs will prolly be cooled well enough with the way you are setting up your system.

if you want to be 100% certain get a fan in front of them or slap some HDD coolers on them.

 

[Spewn]

You can probably find some oversized aluminum heatsinks(fairly short, but big flat bases) at like a surplus store or something. At least, the one around me sells 'em. I'd recomment using a couple strips of thermal tape to attach the sink to the hd, that would be plenty sufficient.

 

[zer0signal667]

Originally posted by eli
I was just wondering, becuase the 120mm fan behind the hard drives only sucks air through the front of the case, doesn't push it.


Thank you

well if it's pulling air in through the front, it's got to be pushing it somewhere else... usually a little airflow is enough to keep hard drives considerably cool.

 

[eli]

ok, I just hear people who's hard drives fail after 1 year due to cooling. Would a simple HDD cooling help? do you guys know of a cheap one?

 

[eli]

I mean i hear of people with 2 high speed HDD's using the same case I am (Antec Sonata), but how do I know that theirs aren't going to fail soon?


If the case has an opening at the front, and its pulling hot air away from the HDD's, fresh air has to be replacing it....right? damnit, there are so many complications involved in building a PC these days....cooling wise atleast.


Later,
Eli

 

[CaNNoN]

i have 2x raptors in raid and i just have my front 120mm 86CFM fan blowinf cool air over them. they dont get too hot.

i wouldnt worry too much about HDD heat. worry more about your CPU and northbridge brudda. just have a nice high flow fan blowin on the HDD's

 

[eli]

well, the thing is: I can't. I can have one sucking air, but not pushing. is that good enough?

 

[Sju av Nio]

I just don't understand this case sometimes.. you have a 120mm-fan positioned on (and to the left of) the HD-setup, supposedly getting cool air into the case. How does this work? Isn't it taking the air that's right in front of the HDs thus just sucking the warm air surrounding the HDs and blowing it to the GFX/CPU? Or is there some fan-position that I've missed?

 

[diehard]

Why not pick up a couple of speeze hd coolers from newegg, they run 4 bucks and work pretty good. Or 12 bucks for the vantec one that i got, cools pretty well.

Even if the heat isnt dangerous to the hdd, it can still help lower your case temp ever so slightly.

 

[kovermours]

I have a Sonata with two HDs and I have no problems with just the rear stock fan, running really slowly on a fanbus. I had three in there for a while, it worked fine too.

IMO you should take that front fan out... the flow provided is far outweighed by the noise generated. It is a quiet case, remember.

Sure is a beeyotch to put ccfl in, though.

 

[eli]

ahh screw it....I'll just get an Antec P160. It has a 120mm front intake fan.