2* 2.5" HD in one 3.5" Bay, Heat Issues?

meansizzler · 27 Feb 2007 at 18:03

Found an adapter to mount 2 * 2.5" Hard Drives in a single 3.5" bays, was wondering if I would have any heat issues, the 3.5" bay is directly below the Optical Drive bay and current 3.5" HD in there is around 45 Degrees after a few hours, does not go over 47 Degrees...

Want ot get 2 hard drives in my Small Case without sacraficing the optical drive bay and this seems the only way.., but do not want any heat issues, as the drives are packed closely together...

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GeezerButler · 27 Feb 2007 at 18:16

Might get a bit warm, but probably not any hotter then their native environment inside a notebook so I guess you'd probably be OK. 7200rpm drives might run hotter that 5400rpm if you have a choice, but 7200rpm drives would probably have better access times.

meansizzler · 27 Feb 2007 at 18:57

GeezerButler said:
Might get a bit warm, but probably not any hotter then their native environment inside a notebook so I guess you'd probably be OK. 7200rpm drives might run hotter that 5400rpm if you have a choice, but 7200rpm drives would probably have better access times.

Actually on review and performance the 100GB 2.5" IDE Seagate 7200.1 I have is Faster than the 3.5" Seagate 250GB 7200.9, so I thgouht might as well switch to laptop hard drives, just as fast as desktop drives, smaller, use less power, and run quieter.

Just waititng for the Seagate 7200.2 Series to be released, can't find the drives anywhere, 160GB SATA 2/2.5"/16MB Cache!!

Drazic · 27 Feb 2007 at 22:18

OO i like that! I'd be very intrested in one.

naro · 27 Feb 2007 at 22:54

interesting item..

but you don't have to worry about the heat. 2.5" hdds are used to cramped space inside laptops..

meansizzler · 28 Feb 2007 at 00:42

naro said:
interesting item..

but you don't have to worry about the heat. 2.5" hdds are used to cramped space inside laptops..

Heat is a major factor, a month ago got an adapter to mount a 2.5" hard drive in a PCI slot, the hard drive was right next to the tv tuner, and they get hot, so much so the HD was idle at around 45 degrees.., so scrapped that idea..., just want to sepearate drives in my system, one for windows of for recording tv in MCE..., tried a 2.5" drive in an extenral firewire enclosure but cannot read and write at the same time as you get bandwith problems, same as USB so IDE/SATA is the only option..