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That Hyper 212 series has some legs!! They've been selling that same cooler for how many years now? Think I bought one new at release for my nepheew's C2D setup... it was like $13 out the door. Amazing it's still up to the task. Congrats on the upgrade!
You can brute force some more performance out of a 212 with a Corsair ml120 fan and retune of your fan curve.
2nd fan is another 3-5c.
Noise sensitive people should go with Be Quiet.
I like my noctuas, but silent wings fans are better near full blast.
You should see what 2 50mm Delta 120mm fans do........besides remove the tips of (my buddies, not mine!) fingers.
We used to run those in the 90's, parts we'd scavenge from the e-waste pile.
I very quickly learned to pull apart my cases, cut away unneeded obstruction, and use women's nylons stretched across my intake area.
Way more work, but I didn't like running colo rated fans in my house.
All those early Slack linux guys were masochists and loved Sunon or Deltas.
I'd pull ODD support out of the way and zip tie "large" fans in place back when low 80mm intake/high 80mm exhaust was the common beige box layout.
When side ventilation became a huge design feature in cases most of the gamers I knew had been blasting a box fan into an open side since Quake 2.
I am still running no front on my define C bc I'm too cheap to buy a diff box.
Was running a vornado blasting into my 1080ti Armor while I was waiting for the AIO bracket to be delivered a few years ago.
Man, old habits do die hard.
I have at least 3 212's in active service right now, its a really great cooler for the price.
I have 2 in active service, one with a replacement fan, and a 3rd as a spare for if my WC loop ever goes down. Only complaint I've got is that I service them so infrequently that I keep forgetting that the plastic fan brackets are fragile and really don't like to be slid on/off with the fans attached and have damaged a few as a result.
I know someone that finally migrated a bunch of random drives to an 8tb external.
They were from his old q6600 build that would get data shuffled off to whatever cheapie opportunistic HDD was on sale the day the old drive exhibited signs of dying.
He had a Fractal r4 full of under 1tb spinning drives.
Just years of junk mp3s, vods, pics, phone dumps, game saves from win95 to current, you name it he hoarded it.
I know another guy like that that won't listen to any of us.
8x 1tb Seagate hdds that are 6+ years old.
I got an 8tb Barracuda from work but it came from a site that utilizes encryption, so no 'quick format' option for me....
I think the online calculator said it'll take like 36ish hours to wipe....
That doesn't make sense. If you're wiping an encrypted drive, all you need to do is to nuke the key. At that point everything on the drive is as much line noise as when it came off the factory floor.
it has been improved a lot over time.. there is a noticeable from the Hyper 212, to hyper 212 plus, to hyper 212 evo, to hyper 212X, and goes on.. it's a nice cooler with a nice size and price.
Didn't come with the Bitlocker key, just 'here kid, take this'. I did a 'quick format' without knowing and thus why it can't see the drive.
I f'd up something, that's for sure.... Only solution I see is the longgg format *shrugs
I'm open to ideas/suggestions to save me that hassle?