Poor airflow

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When I game (GTX 1070), the temperature on all my HDDs and SSDs shoot up to anything between 50-56c. I put this down to my GTX 1070 generating so much heat. When idling they range about 35-43c or so. My Samsung 840 currently which is just my Windows boot drive is 56c.

I have one rear case fan i bought many years ago. I think it's called red wing or something. Should I replace this?

What's the best way (and most silent as possible) to improve the airflow or to keep the drive temps down a little?

Thanks
 
I just downloaded HWMonitor, says FANIN0 is 0 RPM and FANPWMIN0 0% ! Will check tomorrow if it's actually disconnected :D

Spec as follows:
Coolermaster Elite 334
Asus p8z77-v lx
i5 3570k (stock)
Coolermaster Hyper 212 Evo CPU cooler
2 Samsung HDDs
3 SSDs - Crucial and Samsung.
GTX 1070

The case fan (Xilence Red Wing) is mounted on the rear of the case. I have 2 HDDs next to each other (so there's only a very small gap between them due to lack of space, because of my graphics card) and the Samsung 840 SSD is one slot above it. The other 2 SSDs are in the 5.25 bays. The HDDs are only about 1cm away from the graphics card.

I've also today cleaned the case out with air compressor.

I'm happy to spend some money on some cooling or even a new case if it improves the temps which is something I thought about doing recently when installing my graphics card!

Any recommendations for a silent front case fan?
 
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I ended up buying the Fractal R5. So much more space now :D

I'm using the 2 fans that come with it, one blowing directly on the 3.5 bays (the top bays anyway). HDD/SSD temperatures are about 35c when gaming :)

Thank you all for the help
 
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