[RESOLVED] Hard drive coolers

[Deity]

I recently built a small server for my company to run a new mailing program I wrote. My boss insisted on using some nothing case he got cheap. Well, you have to keep the boss happy, so I ordered the parts I needed and built the system. I was running two Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm drives in a RAID configuration. Needless to say they got damn hot. Too hot to touch, and that was after running for about two hours.

I checked the temperature and the processor was running at about 148F and the system at 125F. Unacceptable. So I found some hard drive coolers. Best investment ever made. I love these things. The <A HREF="http://www.pcmods.com/details.asp?prodID=46">Coolermaster Cool Drive.</A>

The unit consists of an aluminum casing that the HDD is mounted to and a high speed ball-bearing fan mounted in the front. The whole unit mounts into a 5 1/4" bay for airflow. The front plate is removable with a small screen covering the fan keeping dirt from clogging the fan.

The end results...CPU temperature is now 114F, and the system temp is 84F. http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum1/noncgi/biggrin.gif

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[Fierce1]

Awesome! Good results, there are alot of options out there for cooling your box, and between the harddrive coolers and the slot coolers (for the back of the box) you can't go wrong for exhausting pockets of heat.

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[MacGyver]

Ya, cooling the SCSI drives was definitely the way to go. I was upgrading the hard disks in our server a few months ago, and after only running for a few minutes, the SCSI drives were hot enough to burn me! I'm always checking the cooling fans in our server to make sure nothing fails...

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[0E_Exception]

Is that all you did to cool down your case/pro? That's pretty good results! Does anyone else have some recommendations for hard drive coolers? Or advice about which ones to stay away from? I'm looking to lower the temp on my HDD as well.

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