Hard Drive Coolers?

These are quite good:
Zalman ZM-2HC2 Silent Hard Disk Heatpipe Cooler

These are OK but not worth the money:
GUP Japan Smart Drive 2002C Hard Drive Silencer
(They cut down on drive noise but don't stop vibration very well.)

It really depends why you want these and what your budget is.

- if you just need to stick hard drives in 5.25" bays then any adapter will do

- if you want silence then I'd reccommend suspending them with bungee cord (a few quid for some cord off ebay)
See here: OCUK Forums - Bungee cable?

- if you need to fit in a number of drives then one of these should do the job:
Icy Dock MB-453SPF 3-Bay Internal SATA Drive Enclosure. There are larger ones too if you donn't mind taking up 3 5.25" bays.

- if you only want one or two drives, but they run hot then maybe you want active cooling. OCUK stock a few of these (make sure you check in the HardDrives -> Caddies & Accessories and the Cooling -> Other Coolers sections) but I have no experience of these. I don't reckon you need active coling unless your HDDs are >=10,000 rpm drives or if you are trying to pack tons in.
 
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I use those caddies for my drives. Really good too. Mine are the smae ones as in the review. I can't find those for sale any longer but have found the Vortex2 for sale. £17.57 inc vat but i can't give you a link due to forum rules.
 
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