sandman1485 Posted January 5, 2004 Posted January 5, 2004 I recently built a cdrom mod for my hard drive for noise dampening. It worked perfectly, until I touched the hard drive. I got quite the shock when I felt temperatures so hot that I couldn't keep my finger on it for too long. I instantly shut down, let it cool off, and put it back in its regular hard drive bay. However, the temperature remains very high, and I realized that the hard drive has always run at this temperature (I'd guess around 60-70C). The high temperature would explain my sandra benchmark tests showing the hard drive as being par with a 40gb 4800rpm with 2mb cache, when it is supposed to be 80gb WD 8mb. So, I've concluded I need some hard drive cooling. As I already have the Koolance setup, I plan on going with the hard drive cooler from Koolance. I am curious as to what people's experiences with this cooler are. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
justinal Posted January 5, 2004 Posted January 5, 2004 thats going to kill the cooling on your cpu Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandman1485 Posted January 5, 2004 Posted January 5, 2004 How many degrees? 2-3? If so, that is not an issue. I'm at 28 right now, and not doing any serious overclocking. 2.3ghz on a 2500+. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilkev715 Posted January 6, 2004 Posted January 6, 2004 If you leave your HD in the CD-ROM casing, it is basically cooking itself in an oven. Most hard drives (7200rpm drives, not 15K SCSI) aren't really that loud, so I dunno why you decided to place it in a CD-ROM casing. I have seen the koolance HD cooler and it is really unnecessary. I know Zalman has a 5.25" bay HD cooler that uses heatpipes and has no fans for about 30 bucks. Why dont you just leave your HD in the HD cage on your case and use the 80mm fan to cool it? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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