Do you cool your HDD

thehitmen · 29 Jun 2009 at 06:29

Does anyone cool there HDD if so what with?

RJC · 29 Jun 2009 at 07:22

I have a 120mm fan blowing accross the hd's and then into the case.

Firestar_3x · 29 Jun 2009 at 07:58

Not in my main rig, all the drives are solid state (4x 64GB Samsungs in Raid0.)

In my server i have a 80mm slow / silent fan blowing over them into the case.

cmndr_andi · 29 Jun 2009 at 08:09

I have 7x 3.5in HDDs in two coolermaster 4 in 3 bays. Each bay is cooled by a noctua P12 fan.

I'm pretty sure this level of cooling is not required, but my hard drives are certainly cool and quiet.

miniyazz · 29 Jun 2009 at 08:16

I have 10 HDDs in my Antec p182. Bottom four and middle two are cooled by 120mm case fans, pretty much silent. Top three, mounted in the optical drive bays, I sellotaped another 120mm case fan to, again pretty much silent. And I mounted a 2.5" drive in the floppy drive bay, no fan. That one now runs at 37°C, ambient temp 29°C :eek:

hotter than any other drive bar my OS drive, which is a WD (from a MyBook) and runs a lot hotter than my F1s and 7200.11s.

hp7909 · 29 Jun 2009 at 08:30

Case HD bay is just behind the front intake 120mm fan. But have to say impressed by how cool the 500GB Samsung F1's run ~26°C

Admiral Huddy · 29 Jun 2009 at 08:38

^ Pretty much standard for any set-up.

GrantJ · 29 Jun 2009 at 16:52

I have a 120mm front case fan and a couple of 80mm side case fans cooling the HDD cage. No problems so far.

Ninja Please! · 29 Jun 2009 at 17:08

Hdd sits behind the front intake fans so I guess I do although not intentionally and I don't think it helps the performance of the drive any.

I do have a temperature sensor on my wd green hdd which stays at a constant 81-82F

millsy888 · 29 Jun 2009 at 17:23

I've got the antec 900 case so the front fans are sucking in cool air over the hdd's

Ghost-Reaper · 29 Jun 2009 at 17:36

Half and half for me, one set are attached to a rad with a fan blowing though and the others are buried in my case with no cooling, temp difference of around 3 degrees.

sxndy · 30 Jun 2009 at 10:51

I got one 6" fan blowing over mine, can't do any harm to keep them cool.

BeeP · 30 Jun 2009 at 11:49

Antec 900 has 2 fans blowing onto my hdd's. My Samsung is cooler than my WD & the sammy is doing more work.

Can't hurt to keep them cool.

JonJ678 · 30 Jun 2009 at 12:06

I guess I'm the exception. The only hard drive in my computer is a 500gb WD green which is firmly screwed to the chassis. It's at 30 degrees at present, with no airflow whatsoever as it has a floppy drive on one side and a dvd drive the other. The hope was that the case would act as a heatsink, and it appears to be doing so

OS drive is an ssd

setter · 30 Jun 2009 at 18:23

On my main rig in sig, the 2 drives are sitting in front of a 120mm 2000 rpm fan run of a controller. Samsung runs 2-3c lower than the wd. On my second system my 2 raid0 raptors are kept in vantec vortex hdd cooling enclosures, which also helps to quieten them a bit.