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Re: How to Keeping 7200RPM Drives Cool?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lally Singh)
Thu May 28 10:49:30 1998
Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 10:43:17 -0400
From: Lally Singh <lally@geoloccorp.com>
To: Mark Garlanger <garlangr@cyberramp.net>
CC: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
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.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
I've seen a lot of responses to your message suggesting fans be
attached.
That's a good idea, but I would suggest putting them on a power
connector
on their own. I've had experiences where my fans' power connectors were
chained to my HDD, and the fans would overheat (how does a fan
overheat?)
and cut off power, resetting my HDD...
The fans are now connected on their own power connection (the ones that
were overheating are now connected to the bottom of my trash can...).
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