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Re: How to Keeping 7200RPM Drives Cool?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil's Kernel Account)
Sat May 23 12:09:54 1998
Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 12:05:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Phil's Kernel Account" <kernel@eiterra.nls.net>
Reply-To: kernel@nls.net
To: Mark Garlanger <garlangr@cyberramp.net>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <3564FA1F.420BAE66@cyberramp.net>
On Thu, 21 May 1998, Mark Garlanger wrote:
# Anyone have any good suggestions on how to keep a 7200RPM Drive cool?
#I have a Micropolis 8.7G U/W
#drive that I had placed in a second case with a large fan blowing across
#it. This seem to work well, but
#then I purchased a cheap 400W UPS, and I didn't think that it would
#support a monitor, system with Dual PPro,
#and a second mini-tower case (250W PS) for just the drive. Since the
#UPS won't do much good without powering
#the Harddrive, I moved the HD back to the main case, but it seem to get
#very hot. I have a small fan in the case
#now, and am considering putting the larger fan in it, but I don't have a
#good way to mount the fan. Since the
#ATX powersupply fan is sucking air in, I assuming the fan I put in
#should blow air from the case out across the top of
#the Harddrive. I would appreciate any suggestions, the last thing I
#want is for the harddrive to fail.
There's a handy little device that'll run you ~$26USD called a "Peltier
Cooler." It's a solid-state hot/cold conductor. Commonly used in CPU
heatsinks. Get some thermal grease, and one of 'em, mount it on the HDD's
top. (That's the side that doesn't have the logic board;) Another fan
sucking air out wouldn't hurt either.
-Phil R. Jaenke (kernel@nls.net / prj@nls.net)
TheGuyInCharge(tm), Ketyra Designs - We get paid to break stuff :)
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