sufficient fan for hd cooling?

Anupama · Feb 10, 2005, 07:35 PM

Hi, thinking about cooling down a digital raptor. And wondering if an papst 80mm (12db) is good enough, or if I should look for a papst 92mm (23db)?

And is it a good idea to mount the fan 5mm off an copper plate. Mounted on the hd? Or is that just useless?

Thx for replys

mike2h · Feb 10, 2005, 07:51 PM

there are hd cooling kits out there that will function much better.
the only real reason to cool HD is if you have a small case with with poor airflow & multiple HD. contrary to popular belief raptors do not run much hotter than other current gen high perf drives.
bty if this had anything to do with an oc, make sure you turn your pci/agp divider down. raptors do not respond well to oc'ing.

Anupama · Feb 10, 2005, 07:54 PM

thx m8, no was worried it would make a lot of heat in my cabinet. You solved my problem

The_Neon_Cowboy · Feb 12, 2005, 12:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mike2h

there are hd cooling kits out there that will function much better.
the only real reason to cool HD is if you have a small case with with poor airflow & multiple HD. contrary to popular belief raptors do not run much hotter than other current gen high perf drives. bty if this had anything to do with an oc, make sure you turn your pci/agp divider down. raptors do not respond well to oc'ing.

Actually "the only real reson" to cool your hard drive is becouse it adversly affects it's life span. Drives get pretty warm 40C / 50C hot especally high RPM drives...if ther is no airflow around them... it takes verry little to cool a hard drive just air blowing across from the frount fans.

the chips (espcally the big controller one gets, to hot to touch) and motar are the buggest generator of heat....just poistiong you hard drive near your front case fans does the trick

you can buy coolers for $5 all the way up to $50 but all you really need is a cheap cooler
like:

http://www.coolerexpress.com/du50fahacosi.html
http://www.store.yahoo.com/glob2000/dualfanhardr.html

(as for over clocking that should have nothing to do with you hard drive what so ever unless you talking about your onboard IDE/SATA controller not likeing it and that only if your board doesnt allow you to lock the pci buss...pci devices don't like running at much higher then spec speeds. So not even a factor unless you board lack a working pci lock in wich case you shouldn't be overclocking it to begin with...)

Feb 10, 2005, 07:35 PM	#1
Anupama DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 46 Rep Power: 0	sufficient fan for hd cooling? Hi, thinking about cooling down a digital raptor. And wondering if an papst 80mm (12db) is good enough, or if I should look for a papst 92mm (23db)? And is it a good idea to mount the fan 5mm off an copper plate. Mounted on the hd? Or is that just useless? Thx for replys

Feb 10, 2005, 07:51 PM	#2
mike2h DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: norcal Posts: 6,483 Rep Power: 89 System Specs	there are hd cooling kits out there that will function much better. the only real reason to cool HD is if you have a small case with with poor airflow & multiple HD. contrary to popular belief raptors do not run much hotter than other current gen high perf drives. bty if this had anything to do with an oc, make sure you turn your pci/agp divider down. raptors do not respond well to oc'ing. __________________

Feb 10, 2005, 07:54 PM	Thread Starter #3
Anupama DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 46 Rep Power: 0	thx m8, no was worried it would make a lot of heat in my cabinet. You solved my problem