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Very High HDD temperatures... any solution?

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Tango76

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Last year I built a computer using the ABS Black Pearl Case, which uses Lian-Li style hard drive cages, located at the bottom of the case. The cages are in front of the only intake fan, but the airflow seems very low. The intake fan has a mesh dust filter and a metal casing, and the hard drive cages themselves probably don't help cooling the drives.

The computer needs to stay on basically 24/7, so I spent quite a long time designing a good cooling system for the CPU/GPU/MB. I didn't really consider the HDD situation, as I assumed the hard drive cages were placed so to be sufficiently cooled.

Result: yesterday I checked for the first time the temperatures of my HDD and they were above 55 Celsius. That's way above what I have read is safe.

The hard drive cages were one of the reasons why I chose this case, as I use 6 hard drives and it is important to me that I can organize them nicely inside the case.

Solutions? I could move the non-SSD drives to a front bay adapter with a fan, but moving that many drives would maybe require too many of them and transform the whole case in a nest of cables. Or could removing the fan dust filter and casing be enough? What about those puny fans designed to be screwed directly on the drives? Do they work? Are they generally very noisy?

Thanks for the help...
 
can you check the RPM of the fan in front of the drives? you can use speedfan, the bios, or whatever you prefer. what kind of drives are they? removing the filter will definitely help, but youll just have to try it to see how much. replacing the fan is probably the best way to go, or adding a second one behind the drives for push/pull.
 
The fan is a gentle typhoon, and it's spinning at 1450 RPM. It's the same kind of fan I am using as exhaust. However the airflow seems very limited (placing my hand in front of it).

Will removing the filter translate in a horrible amount of dust inside the case?
 
you normally cant really feel the airflow on the intake side of a fan, but 1450rpm should be good enough to cool a couple HDDs. can you tell us what model they are, and also take a picture of the whole case and a closeup of the hard drive bay? you will get significantly more dust if you take out the filter, but if you blow out your pc with compressed air every month or 2 or 3, then it wont build up and wont be a problem. youre sure you have one fan as intake and one fan as exhaust right? if theyre both in or both out then they will fight each other and youll get no air flow.
 
Blah, that case sucks for cooling hard drives especially if you have hard drives in the second drive cage. There's no vent at the bottom intake fan either. When I had that case, I thought about getting 4 in 3 drive cages and putting them in the 5.25" bays but I ended up selling the case before that happened.
 
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