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gomcse
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15 Jul 2003, 8:59am

A quick question regarding cooling my SATA Hard drive

Hi folks

I am currently using the Lian-Li PC60 Case and count the Western Digital Serial ATA 120Gb 8MB cache Hard drive using the

FYI, the case already came equipped with front and rear fans. The bottom intake fans are 80mm 12 volt 50CFM ADDA Case fans .
Now my WD SATA hard drive mount vertically, which seemed odd to me, but did not pose any problems. I arranged the drive to get as much airflow over them as well as past them. Placing the drive cage in front of the intake fans helps to keep this high RPM drive cool. But personally I think even if I set those 2 intake fans to high speed somehow but I think the cooling is not good enough, so I would like to get some professional feedback from you guys.

Can you kindly recommend me the exact brand name and model of the fan based on my current hard drive install configuration, so I can order accordingly?

Many thanks for your prompt reply.
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15 Jul 2003, 3:40pm
If the top of the drive is cool, it's fine. I've got 10,000rpm SCSI drives that run hotter than that WD does, and they run near room temperature with 50cfm moving across them.
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mr.FU
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15 Jul 2003, 5:30pm
lets be realistic here....why would you need your hdds to be so cool anyhow? unless you wanted low case temps when you are oc'ing there is no point. these arent IBM drives which fail due to heat...these are 'quality' WD drives which really should have no problem operating in hot conditions; some harddisks are installed into towers multiple times hotter than computers owned by enthusiasts...like a consumer...he doesn't care how hot the comp is...he wants ti to run quietly and efficiently. face it, if you want your disks to run cooler..you're gonna hafta put up wiht more noise...and well, lately everyone's become more obsessed with keepin things quiet. if you really want to cool em down, try seein if you can jerry-rig a 120mm fan into your case, you can get alotta cfm for a lower db rating.
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gomcse
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15 Jul 2003, 6:09pm
Many thanks for all your replies and I think I am doing OK right now and I should not overreact for my SATA 7200rpm HD.

Anyhow, have a good day, man !
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16 Jul 2003, 4:14am
no problem man, that's what we're here for. and welcome to icrontic
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DanG
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16 Jul 2003, 5:35pm
You could always pick up something like this from newegg.


I have one of those on my 10k WD Raptor and it keeps it nice an cool.
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1 Aug 2003, 2:24pm
Originally posted by DanG
You could always pick up something like this from newegg.


I have one of those on my 10k WD Raptor and it keeps it nice an cool.
Dan you need to be very careful with those actually. Especially with the lighter aluminum cases as they can induce vibration onto the drive itself. Remeber that the heads microns away from the platters when they art moving and many of the cheaper bolt on coolers have cheap fans in them that can actually hasten the demise of your drive. It seems to be focused mostly though on those that are running the super expensive and very light weight aluminum cases though. pretty sad really as those are the guys that spent mega bucks on their rigs and all the extra cooling etc... and they complain about having lost 3 hard drives in a year or something... And teh reoccurring theme often is those bolton coolers and very light weight cases.

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slippery sid
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2 Aug 2003, 3:22pm
I have the exact same setup, except I have the black version of the case, the PC-61.

I have two Seagate drives mounted vertically and use the two Lian Li stock fans to cool, on full speed. Apart from cool the hard drives, they do little else.

I replaced the rear and roof fans with more powerful Pabst models as imo the stock Lian Li fans aren't very effective.

I'd say leave things as they are, I've been running the 2 vertically mounted Seagates in a RAID config for 8 months now, no problems.
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