hard drive coolers, are they worth it?

[FragTek]

my hdd are in floppy drives anyway lol. keeping the lower drive bays clear for airflow.

Yeah that's what I did but it cuts off proper airflow to the hd's

 

[Skip Cox]

I have a HDAC coming from evercool to review...might be one answer for those who can't mount a hdd in the airflow path.

Should have results sometime later this month.

Or next month

 

[bloodthirst]

nice dude i cant wait to see it maker it sooner than later

 

[Skip Cox]

Received a box today from Evercool, but no hdd cooler. Don't know for sure if more stuff is coming and I need to write 4 reviews this week so wouldn't have time to take a good look at it anyway.

More to come.

 

[bloodthirst]

Received a box today from Evercool, but no hdd cooler. Don't know for sure if more stuff is coming and I need to write 4 reviews this week so wouldn't have time to take a good look at it anyway.

More to come.

was a hdd cooler supposed to come in the box?

 

[Skip Cox]

I thought so...one of the blower jobs (HDAC I believe); supposed to be quiet.

I understand the Evercool folks have been busy with Computex Taipei 2005 show so I may hear more/receive more stuff to review later.

 

[0range]

wow that one HDD cooler is prolly the most expsensive and waste of money thing unless your HDD is bout to BRASH or always crashes.....lol things insaine...

 

[Skip Cox]

Haven't seen one yet and haven't heard about pricing on most of their stuff.

HDD cooling ain't rocket science and just a little airflow across a drive will usually lower temps dramatically...moving my 80Gig Maxtor from an upper drive bay to behind the 120mm intake fan was worth ~20°C.

I've also suspended, glued, taped and crammed fans to move some air across drives.

The crazies out there can also water cool their hdd's and really spend some money.

 

[deepfried]

i have a maxtor hard drive and i have heard of theese hard drive coolers, i would get 1 but my hard drive is at 19*c neway

wtf ionicle i seen ur comp, its got a hdd cooler made from copper you got from quaytech

 

[ionicle_old]

i kno but that was ages ago...notice the date!

02-05-2005, 08:47 PM lmao

 

[bloodthirst]

The crazies out there can also water cool their hdd's and really spend some money.

i simply dont see the point in that

 

[ionicle_old]

to keep em cold....

 

[deepfried]

to keep em cold....

WHAT? and all this time i was putting that paint stripper gun under my drive bays for no reason

 

[ionicle_old]

lmao