"John Corliss" <jcorliss@fake.invalid> wrote in message
news:11l9jlmns1jere5@corp.supernews.com...
> My system is set up with two hard drives and I use XXCopy:
>
> http://www.xxcopy.com/index.htm
>
> to clone one to the other on demand. I do *not* use RAID because I want
> control over when a backup copy is made. Unfortunately, I recently fried
> my main hard drive and had to send it back.
>
> Yesterday, I received the replacement hard drive from Newegg.com and have
> installed it. Since I've now gone through two secondary hard drives in
> what I consider to be short order, it's time to figure out why this is
> happening. Kony (my thanks to you!) and somebody else (sorry, I can't find
> the thread now) suggested that I look into cooling the hard drives. This
> makes a lot of sense to me because they're mounted right on top of one
> another, and when I touch them after running the computer for a while,
> they're both rather warm - bordering on HOT.
>
> Time to cool those puppies.
>
> I've been looking at various fan additions and what I really want to do is
> to blow directly ONTO the hard drives in order to maximize heat removal.
> This, however, will blow dust onto the hard drives and as Kony mentioned,
> "while a drive is sealed, most have a filtered vent hole still." This
> means that dust still has a way into the drive, although it's a difficult
> path. Thus, I would think that it's better to suck air away from the
> drives rather than blow onto them.
>
> Mounting a hard drive in a fan unit that fits into a spare 5.25" bay is
> not an option, because I want to cool both hard drives. However, I'm
> thinking of additionally adding a 5.25" bay mounted case fan in the middle
> bay (I have three) to cool my two DVD drives and provide additional case
> ventilation.
>
> But back to the hard drives, I'd like to find something that will mount so
> as to suck the hot air right off of the hard drives and out of the case. I
> would prefer not to use something that will suck the heat off of the hard
> drives and distribute it into the case, but maybe that additional fan in
> the 5.25" empty bay will render that concern of no consequence. Any
> recommendations?
>
> TIA
>
> --
> Regards from John Corliss



Easiest solution (if your case allows it) is to separate the drives (put one
drive space between them) and have an intake at the front of your system
sucking air in and blowing it across them. You can easily attach a filter
(bought or home-made) to prevent dust monsters from invading. As far as the
added warm air, if you have a couple of good exhaust fans it'll make little
or no difference and in fact might even keep your case cleaner if you had
negative pressure in there before the fan was added.
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