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09-12-2007, 10:25 AM
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| True Techie  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Waterbury, CT
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 |  Hard Drive Cooling Alright, I think it's time to focus on Hard Drive cooling, I never gave it much thought, but considering i have a Seagate 500 GB perpendicular recording drive, i think it's time to focus on cooling it. So, I am open ears, tell me your experience, recommendations, specs, everything, I am eager to hear what you all have to say. Thanks. BTW, i was looking at these coolers... HDD Coolers
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09-12-2007, 10:33 AM
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| Master Techie  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Maine
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 | Re: Hard Drive Cooling You may not need a hard drive cooler unless your drive is getting pretty hot. What is the hard drive temperatures? My Seagate is at 37*C and my Raptor is at 33*C. The Raptor has this cooler. |
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09-12-2007, 10:34 AM
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| Re: Hard Drive Cooling I have no idea, how would i be able to find that out? I found out that my hard drives MAX operating temp is 60*C. I am sure I am not anywhere near that, but i would like to know where I am... also i was looking at this particular cooler Vantec Vortex Hard Drive Cooling System (Black)
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09-12-2007, 10:46 AM
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| Lurker Techie  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Dakota
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 | Re: Hard Drive Cooling I know SpeedFan can tell you the temps of your Harddrives (just google it). Can't remember if Everest can or not, though... Not at home right now, so I can't look for sure xD.
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09-12-2007, 10:53 AM
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| Re: Hard Drive Cooling I'd only consider running a hard drive cooler if- -Your case has low air flow -You're running more then three hard drives by eachother -You have a hard drive that seems to run hot -You have generally high ambient temps If you were going to run a Hard Drive cooler, I'd look into one of these two- 1)CoolerMaster CoolDrive Lite 2)Evercool F117 NightHawk Hard Disk Drive Cooler Personally, I'd get the first one. If you have open 5.25 bays that is.
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09-12-2007, 10:54 AM
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| True Techie Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Waterbury, CT
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| Re: Hard Drive Cooling sweet deal, my laptop is runnin a lil warm, the Hard drive is at 43, CPU at 49, and the ACPI is at 35... I'll have to run this wen i get home on my rig. So @ wat temp do you think i should use a cooler?
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09-12-2007, 10:58 AM
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| Re: Hard Drive Cooling You're not able to run a hard drive cooler in a laptop. Atleast, I'm not aware of any laptop that has a case big enought to fit a hard drive cooler into. Just buy a notebook cooler if temps are bugging you.
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09-12-2007, 11:02 AM
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| Re: Hard Drive Cooling oh no no no, i am in class right now, i was just trying out the software, the computer i am thinking about cooling is my desktop, specs and pic in my sig
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09-12-2007, 11:18 AM
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| Re: Hard Drive Cooling Quote:
That'd be worth it. It's always worth checking out. Just make sure you can justify spending $20-30 for a hard drive cooler.
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09-12-2007, 11:26 AM
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| True Techie Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Waterbury, CT
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| Re: Hard Drive Cooling I used to have a hard drive cooler in my old comp, but there was SOOO much dust, the screen came off for easy cleaning so it was nice, but the other thing is i especially like having hardware monitoring hardware. In other words, i want to be able to have a temp readout on my screen. I was looking at this fan controller, Aerocool Gatewatch II - Blackand then the first link u posted just now...
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