Poor air intake Corsair 780T

Helen Barber · 20 Mar 2021 at 02:22

With my front hard drive cage full There isn't much fresh air getting in. Only room for single fan at the bottom of pc case

Any ideas?

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JohnG7 · 20 Mar 2021 at 02:30

HDD's or SSD's, if the latter move them and remove the cage(s) as I did this on my Phantom 630.

Helen Barber · 20 Mar 2021 at 03:03

Hard drives I have 8 drives installed so can't exactly move them unfortunately
Debating cutting hole on side pane, but would rather not

JohnG7 · 20 Mar 2021 at 03:26

That must be loud esp. while seeking.

How many TB in total?

Helen Barber · 20 Mar 2021 at 05:31

JohnG7 · 20 Mar 2021 at 05:36

Oh, not going to replace with SSD's then, do you really need all that internally, not move mostly all of it to Ext HDD via USB/ESATA or even a NAS?

I have over 150x 1080p TV Shows (Seasons) to watch some day and they are all on 2x4TB SSD's using about 60-65% space on the drives so 5TBish.

Helen Barber · 20 Mar 2021 at 05:38

Thinking 47TB worth of SSDs might be expensive

It's a cleaner way of doing it internally

JohnG7 · 20 Mar 2021 at 05:41

I had 4x HDD's and it was hotter case temps and loud and crowded, now PC is basically silent apart from Ext HDD but only WD RED 5.4K RPM HDD's.

Helen Barber · 20 Mar 2021 at 05:44

I wonder if I would be better using the front fans to pull the air out rather than cool air in?

I think I will mod the side panel with a fan, blowing in cool air directly over cpu

JohnG7 · 20 Mar 2021 at 05:46

Not by my findings not the way ATX was designed to work but I get your point, it would still restrict exhausting over the HDD's/Cage(s) and have hot positive pressure.

With that much storage you seriously should look at a DAS or NAS, I bet bledd would agree.

Helen Barber · 20 Mar 2021 at 05:55

I'm using drivepool, it's just for streaming of movies via Plex and safe backup

JohnG7 · 20 Mar 2021 at 05:59

I do/did the same but when I had less storage I simply keep most of the content on the Ext HDD (Raid 1 so is a backup) and moved across blocks of what I was going to watch to internal storage to view on my NV Shield via PC using Emby (Plex is not as good but I did sub for years).

Helen Barber · 20 Mar 2021 at 06:06

Is Emby like Plex? Is it better?

JohnG7 · 20 Mar 2021 at 06:12

Better and far better support (they at least answer you) and a few user made side forks for adding to Kodi (one just new in testing now to replace older one).

Emby - The open media solution

Forums - Emby Community

Helen Barber · 20 Mar 2021 at 06:27

I will take a look

JohnG7 · 20 Mar 2021 at 06:36

The two can coexist, you will not mess either up.

Danny75 · 20 Mar 2021 at 16:16

If the PSU isn't very long, you might be able to lay the top HDD cage beside the other and do away with the bottom fan. Looks like CPU and GPU will then get plenty of air from the front. That said, I'm glad JohnG7 took the time to post his more elegant solutions.

You could likewise do away with both cages entirely and set up a bungee solution for all 8 drives at the bottom.

Helen Barber · 20 Mar 2021 at 16:41

Danny75 said:
If the PSU isn't very long, you might be able to lay the top HDD cage beside the other and do away with the bottom fan. Looks like CPU and GPU will then get plenty of air from the front. That said, I'm glad JohnG7 took the time to post his more elegant solutions.

You could likewise do away with both cages entirely and set up a bungee solution for all 8 drives at the bottom.

That's a great idea