Antec sonata 2 heat from hard drives

ja3h · 2 May 2006 at 02:15

I'm putting in some hard drives i got from ocuk's b grade section

So instead of one 200gb drive it will be
80
160
200

I've only got a rear case fan, do you think i will need to buy a 120mm fan for the front to keep the hard drives cool? Or will they be ok if i space them out?

thanks

also what fan would you recommend *under a tenner*? I have got a noiseblocker but its a 80mm..would that fit?

Thanks

ja3h · 2 May 2006 at 11:07

cool thanks for the response. I'll order one of those fans

Are they quiet if they're just plugged into a fan header on the motherboard?

thnx dude

ja3h · 2 May 2006 at 17:09

^^ yeah what he said.

At first the drive was poking out but you just need to adjust the rails on either side of the drive. trial and error

Thanks for your feedback, will deffo order a fan then

ja3h · 6 May 2006 at 14:17

I looked on the manual online, but how do you install the front fan? pull off the front panel? i'm worried i'll break it if anyone could lemme know how to do it i would be grateful.

thanks

ja3h · 9 May 2006 at 21:53

ah thanks, i did take off the front panel to notice no fan mount. I see where you are talking about, unfortunately my x1800xt is a v.long card and the pcie power cable pretrudes from it and would get in the way of the fan. So i can't really mount it anywhere ><. Also i didnt get those rubber mount things. I take it you mean the ones similar to what the rear fan is held with?