Hard Drives and Heat

Hudzy · 12 Sep 2006 at 21:14

Quick question...

If I have 3 hard drives is it going to be alright to have them stacked pretty much all on top of each other? Using a Lian Li V1000+ and the only space available is the one drive cage at the bottom behind the fan. I know people say be wary of heat and all that, but is it something I should be concerned about in reality?

Cyber-Mav · 12 Sep 2006 at 21:22

really depends on the drives themselves but they should be ok. 3 raptors would make me worry

Hudzy · 12 Sep 2006 at 21:48

No Raptors. A Maxtor 300 GB drive and two of the new Seagate 320 GB drives. I'm guessing the heat of a drive is at least in someway related to how much it's being used and mostly the two Seagates are just going to be storage.

Messiah Khan · 12 Sep 2006 at 22:26

Well they will be in a drive cage designed to hold harddrives. Also they are right behind a fan which is the main thing. I'd say put them in and use something like speedfan to monitor the temps for a few days. As long as they don't go over 40 degrees or so you'll be more than fine. I have 4 harddrives including a raptor crammed into the bottom of a p180 and they never go over 37 degrees.

Jimbo · 12 Sep 2006 at 22:33

No no, 40c is fine. Make sure they arent hitting 50c thats when you got trouble.

Messiah Khan · 12 Sep 2006 at 22:44

Yeah I know 40 is fine, but obviously keeping it under that is going to keep your data happier for longer. Personally I wouldn't like to see my drives sitting at 40-50degrees 24/7.

rpstewart · 12 Sep 2006 at 22:55

Hudzy said:
Quick question...

If I have 3 hard drives is it going to be alright to have them stacked pretty much all on top of each other? Using a Lian Li V1000+ and the only space available is the one drive cage at the bottom behind the fan. I know people say be wary of heat and all that, but is it something I should be concerned about in reality?

They'll be fine in there. I'm running 8 in the bottom of a V2100+ with an Akasa Amber in front of them, currently the disks in the rear stack are running around 39C.

Hudzy · 12 Sep 2006 at 23:02

That's good news then. Might pick up one of those Ambers, if I can run it faster and at the same noise as I currently do then it has to be an improvement. I run the fan the case came with at slowest speed at the moment for noise reasons.