HDD Watercooling - Is it worth it?

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Hi,

Am going to go water cooling soon and was just wondering if watercooling your HDD is worth it? At the moment I have a raptor in a silentmaxx enclosure and a seagate in the hdd bay. Now what I would like to do is put the raptor in a watercooling caddy like this

Asetek Waterchill 5.25" Hard Drive Cooler

And then either sell the silentmax or put the segate in it. My questions to you are:

1. Is it at all worth watercooling my raptor?
2. Is that Asetek block any good?
3. It has 10mm fitting I assume this is incompatible with the 1/2" i will be using in my setup?

Thanks
 
the only time it is worth watercooling your harddrive is if you have 2 loops and want no fans. otherwise you get an extra heatdump in your loop and more restrictions. it is easier and cheaper to just have a fan blowing over them.

daven
 
I would also say no, as i find both my raptors are very easy to keep cool with minimal airflow. A silent low airflow 120mm fan in front of them should be fine.
 
http://www.alphacool.de/xt/product_...oolers/hdd-watercool-silentstar-hd-dual:.html

only type thats worth it tbh...

if you're trying to cool 10k or above drives and silence em, its the only way to do it...

7.2k drives are fine in silentmaxx boxes

if it doesnt enclose the drive completely, its a waste IMO, might as well use a 5v silent fan... dont even need that really, my drives are warm, and i have 4 in 2x 5.25" bays in a custom mount, and theyre fine :) only 7.2k SATA1 drives tho
 
what u guys think cooling the hard drives will acctually achieve?
if you wanan do it for the hell of it... do it !, but i think its pretty pointell tbh.
deffo dont put them ont he same loop as ** CPU / GPU !!
 
Personally I've found the ones I've used to be pretty useless in noise reduction, as for cooling I don't think they need it really, I've never heard of one overheating.
 
The only reason to do this in my mind would be to keep the drives silent without the use of fans. Even so I reckon you could make a nice passive cooler for the anyway.
 
jellybeard999 said:
involves a fan though...
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A silent fan i.e inaudible from 1 metre. You would still need fans for water cooling anyhow.
I don't understand why people bother with passive cooling when you can get fans that are so quiet you can't hear them anyway.
See this article for a list of silent fans
 
I have a raptor in a silentmaxx enclosure, it get but a little airflow over the back half of the caddy, and temps stay well below 35'
 
watercooled HDD's = expensive and or a poor performing watercooling loop. Passive cooling is all that is needed or a slow rpm fan / half decent case air flow.

My 4 HDD's get too hot with no fans but are fine with intake fans on the medium setting (PC60)
 
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