[Burn]

anyone use hard drive coolers, like not just blowing air accross, but something that attaches to the hard drive? i haven't ever used them, and i'd like to know if they warrant getting.

 

[briank]

I find aiming a fan across them is plenty affective and less noisy. The small fans on the hard drive coolers tend to wear out their bearings and don't have a lot of airflow for the speed they spin at.

 

[Burn]

yeah, i've never used one, and i don't intend to, either. my case came w/ a bay that has a small fan run air across, so it's sufficient.

 

[Veto1024]

I use the, dum dum dummmmm, Ultimate Hard Drive Cooler!!! ROAR!!!!

2 actually for my 74gb Raptors in raid. Its 2x40mm fan attached to a heatsink that makes some pretty good contact with the covered side of the hard drive; very nice

 

[HaYChE]

i used one but they kinda **** lol u want a good 1 not jus a cheap on that goes under the screws

 

[Burn]

but do the performance gains justify spending the money?
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Originally Posted by HaYChE i used one but they kinda **** lol u want a good 1 not jus a cheap on that goes under the screws

 

[HaYChE]

nah i wont go with a harddrive cooler unless u get a really good expensive one lol but its not worth it coz its not that much of a performace gain.

 

[TheCoolGuy]

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Originally Posted by ATVkid*AFZ* anyone use hard drive coolers, like not just blowing air accross, but something that attaches to the hard drive? i haven't ever used them, and i'd like to know if they warrant getting.

yes i do!
its the coolermaster cool drive 4

does a good job cooling, not loud at all, and probably one of the nicest fan controllers you can have on a system

all in all, does a better than great job,.... look into it!

 

[Veto1024]

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Originally Posted by HaYChE nah i wont go with a harddrive cooler unless u get a really good expensive one lol but its not worth it coz its not that much of a performace gain.

Its more of a safety issue then a performance issue. If your CPU or GPU overheats or gets hot, an alarm goes off or things slow down. If your hard drive overheats, you might corrupt/ruin your hard drive.

 

[Burn]

but it won't ever get hot enough to corrupt the data, no?
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Originally Posted by Veto1024 Its more of a safety issue then a performance issue. If your CPU or GPU overheats or gets hot, an alarm goes off or things slow down. If your hard drive overheats, you might corrupt/ruin your hard drive.

 

[Veto1024]

it might if theres some questionable engineering in a 7200rpm drive. It definitely will in a 10,000 RPM drive though at some point.

 

[Burn]

yeah, i figured at that speed, but i don't (and probably never will) have a 10k rpm drive..

 

[KSIMP88]

I think the coolers are pointless... i don't worry too much....

 

[Burn]

neither do i...

 

[adas]

well, since my 36gig raptors get hot becasue of the obuse, i do use coolers. i have 2 fasn flowing air by, but also both have vantec harddrive coolers with the 2 40mm fans and blue heatsink.....they work great, keep the drives at about 27* and arent loud either

 

[Burn]

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Originally Posted by adas123 well, since my 36gig raptors get hot becasue of the obuse, i do use coolers. i have 2 fasn flowing air by, but also both have vantec harddrive coolers with the 2 40mm fans and blue heatsink.....they work great, keep the drives at about 27* and arent loud either

i have no way to monitor temps at all, so i have no idea what my temp is... just got finished installing a rounded ide cable i made in 10 mins thanks to archer's guide and it looks great!

 

[TwEaK_MoNkeY]

i dont see why u wud ever need to use one

 

[TwEaK_MoNkeY]

u cant exactly OC a hard disk so why bother paying more for the hard disk cooler. mind u i did see one in the city today for $10 bucks (australian dollars for u ignorent americans thats USD$7)

 

[TwEaK_MoNkeY]

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Originally Posted by ATVkid*AFZ* i have no way to monitor temps at all, so i have no idea what my temp is... just got finished installing a rounded ide cable i made in 10 mins thanks to archer's guide and it looks great!

to monitor ur temps get a USD$50 monitoring lcd panel. they monitor everything from fans to temperatures u can even change fan levels