If they made quiet drives to start off with they wouldn't need their E-penis extension.

 

Yeah, I dont really have a problem with my drive temps lol

 

kind of pointless unless you have your hard drive sitting on a heater or no fans what so ever. Never had heat issues with my HDD's or known anyone too.

 

I would say that in servers they may have problems because there are soo many high heat components all together, but having those in anything other than a PC would be very hard to do.

 

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Originally Posted by cgrado I would say that in servers they may have problems because there are soo many high heat components all together, but having those in anything other than a PC would be very hard to do.

Our rackmounted servers at work are a bit hotter than the towers but the rackmounts definitely will not have the room for water cooled hard drives. Let alone allowing any water near the servers.

 

One of my hdd's is like 140+ all the time. I need one.

 

Guess what guys? They sell liquid cooled fans now! Honestly though... water cooled hdd's are pointless. Now if they were filled with water and sealed and still worked, that would be awesome.

 

what makes all the heat in the hard drive anyways? I have taken them apart and all they are is some disc that are spun buy a small moter and a arm that is moved by a magnet,So where does all the heat come form? These no way that little moter can cuase 40-50C worth of heat on its own.

 

Did no one read the article?!

1) They wanted to make a quieter drive, so wrapped it in sound-insulating material.
2) This material prevents sound and heat from getting out.
3) But, we want the heat to get out.
4) Answer? Get the heat out via tubing, which does not carry sound.

 

Is it just me or are water cooled HDD's really not needed.

Put em next to a fan and you are sorted... Like the set up in the antec 900.

 

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Originally Posted by thealmightyone Did no one read the article?! Jesus. 1) They wanted to make a quieter drive, so wrapped it in sound-insulating material. 2) This material prevents sound and heat from getting out. 3) But, we want the heat to get out. 4) Answer? Get the heat out via tubing, which does not carry sound.

Hard drives aren't loud anyways.... At least mine aren't. Of all the sounds coming out of your PC i would think hard drive would be the last one to consider, unless you have raptors or something.

 

Imagine water leak all over in a server,with @ least 10 hdd.

 

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Originally Posted by Chosen One of my hdd's is like 140+ all the time. I need one.

put a fan on it

 

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Originally Posted by jonny1989 what makes all the heat in the hard drive anyways? I have taken them apart and all they are is some disc that are spun buy a small moter and a arm that is moved by a magnet,So where does all the heat come form? These no way that little moter can cuase 40-50C worth of heat on its own.

The motor is the source. Moving parts create friction which generates heat. Those motors are spinning at very high speeds to boot....I'm pretty sure that's where the majority of the heat comes from, that and it cannot readily escape the enclosure.

 

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Originally Posted by cgrado I would say that in servers they may have problems because there are soo many high heat components all together, but having those in anything other than a PC would be very hard to do.

hmm I read a review of harddrives that failed when they where 5c. It's better just to leave the harddrive and leave it running on 30c to 60c.

 

...and isn't it better for hard drives to run warmer? I've heard that they last longer that way, than running cooler.

 

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Originally Posted by b1gapl ...and isn't it better for hard drives to run warmer? I've heard that they last longer that way, than running cooler.

Within limits. Supposingly a hard drive with a bit of airflow going over it is better than a cold hard drive. But you can't go too warm or it will break.

I guess some server hard disks are pretty noisy, especially the cheetahs, 15000rpm.

 

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Originally Posted by alexisd Imagine water leak all over in a server,with @ least 10 hdd.

Just use non-conductive fluid

 

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Originally Posted by jonny1989 what makes all the heat in the hard drive anyways? I have taken them apart and all they are is some disc that are spun buy a small moter and a arm that is moved by a magnet,So where does all the heat come form? These no way that little moter can cuase 40-50C worth of heat on its own.

It is caused by the friction of the drive spinning at 7200RPM.

 

hmm, interesting read.

although the watercooling isn't so much to cool the drives as to help dissipate the heat that gets stuck because of the noise isolation material.

i think i'd just get some scythe HD silencers in a decently quiet case though. seems impractical, and somewhat risky, to have anything more than a fan blowing across.

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to clarify, i was expecting something like that Koolance sleeve thing in a self-contained unit, not a cooling system for the enclosure XD

 

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Originally Posted by biatchi Just use non-conductive fluid

I don't think non-conductive fluid would help if it leaks inside the HD.

And Google has done a study on this before and they claim a warm running HD in the 40-50s will last longer than one running in the 20s for the first 5 years of the drive.

 

I dont have any more arms or legs to spare.

 

If these are for servers....
1) Where would they find the space to fit the rad/pump?
2) How do they plan to tube routing? Server rooms are already a mess of cables.
3) Who cares about noise since no one usually actually sits in a server room?
4) More complexity = more problems. If a loop fails, you lose a whole server instead of just one HD.

 

Maybe expensive media centre's where noise has to be minimal.

 

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Originally Posted by immoral giant If they made quiet drives to start off with they wouldn't need their E-penis extension.

Lol.

This is ridiculous Hard drives don't need cooling of any kind now.