HD Cooling?

[Avor]

What's with all the HD cooling bays? What exactly is the upside to having one?

[BipolarBill]

Unless you have a really hot-running SCSI drive, you don't need one. Even then, I have my doubts.

As long as your case is cooled and there's room for heat to rise from the drive, skip this marketing ploy.

[AllGamer]

I don't know, but i do think they actually help

I have them installed on mines

and it sucks all the heat out real fast

so no heat are stuck inside the case

but i'm running 4+ HDDs and CDRWs and DVDs

and they are all HOT stuff, and some rack removeable HDDs :t

[NDD]

I use 2-fan bay cooler for my 45GB IBM 75GXP.
Less heat - more life to you hardware :)

[BipolarBill]

Especially that hardware. :eek:

[Someone Stupid]

A 75 GXP, your playing with fire there. :) I'm sure BpB can pull up his thread where he spoke to a former IBM rep about that drive in particular.

[causticVapor]

I watercool my 80gig u133 maxtor... as for the WD 7200's, they don't really heat up that much.

As for those GXP's.. :D :r Good zippos ahem space heaters...

[millwork]

Guess what? If coolers were required, drive manufacturers would tell you. Drive coolers were originally designed for U1 servers where the case is only 1 1/2 inches deep - note the low profile of most drive coolers.

Any manufacturer of any product cannot focus soley on a nich market. Therefore, let's see if the general population will spend a few bucks for insurance.

Required? No. Insurance? Yes. Will a cooler extend the life of a modern drive? Probably. However, if the case cooling system is adequate, a direct contact cooler is only needed for IC evolution components such as CPUs and SCRs.

If the cooler is affordable and makes you feel good - do it.

Just my opinion - Don't hurt me. :t

[Someone Stupid]

I have my three SCSI's watercooled, at thoses RPMs and having a "spare" kit (just not the blocks for it), it made good sense to do it. Also have some active vantec coolers (slightly modded to fit with the waterblocks in place). I'd rather spend the extra money now than be doing RMA's later and having to recover everything, not to mention downtime or just plain headaches.

I have a 7200 in another machine, I just have a Vantec Active Cooler on it that sits on the bottom of it. It's a WD ATA 100 8 meg. It was warm before, now it's barely warm at all, pretty much cool.

A 5400, if I have to put a cooler on it, something is wrong with the drive to begin with and I'm RMAing it.

[Giblet Plus!]

My excuse for having a 5400 rpm drive is it runs cooler and keeps my case temps down. A crappy excuse, I know. :(

[The_Shafer]

If you like to game, and I mean 3D intense gaming all night long...you'll notice your hard drive coughing a little. Everything will run slow. If you cool them, then you can keep your computer going for a much longer time without slowing. Unless you do something like this, then you really don't need the cooling. :x

The_Shafer :D

[ukulele]

I mount them in the large bays. It seems to help with a little more air flow around them.

[omega31]

I use a cooling bay, but not for a hard drive. I use it for a dvd drive. It's about time I get a new dvd drive that doesn't overheat. :rolleyes:

Replace my Pioneer DVD-A05S with a Pioneer DVD-106S...