Hard Drive Cooling: Is it Worth it?

**MIG-31** · Dec 27, 2006, 08:37 AM

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With all those crazy high-speed CPUs and GPUs out there, one area of cooling tends to be taken for granted or forgotten: Hard Drives. Is it worth going around and installing fans and coolers onto them to drop those few degrees? What about the noise? Let's find out!

Erroneus · Dec 27, 2006, 10:52 AM

It should be MANDATORY

I'm running a 120mm fan at 900 rpm in front of my three drives and it costs off 10 celcius and then i get a 3-5 celcius drop on the two drives which are mounted in zalman hdd mounts.

Dec 27, 2006, 08:37 AM	#1
MIG-31 HardwareHeaven News Mod Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Nottingham,UK Posts: 56,853 Rep Power: 471 System Specs	Hard Drive Cooling: Is it Worth it? Read More/Source: Futurelooks ______________ With all those crazy high-speed CPUs and GPUs out there, one area of cooling tends to be taken for granted or forgotten: Hard Drives. Is it worth going around and installing fans and coolers onto them to drop those few degrees? What about the noise? Let's find out! __________________ Please Post Your News Submissions Here

Dec 27, 2006, 10:52 AM	#2
Erroneus Get off my lawn! Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Denmark Posts: 13,419 Rep Power: 119 System Specs	It should be MANDATORY I'm running a 120mm fan at 900 rpm in front of my three drives and it costs off 10 celcius and then i get a 3-5 celcius drop on the two drives which are mounted in zalman hdd mounts. __________________