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John Corliss
My system is set up with two hard drives and I use XXCopy:
http://www.xxcopy.com/index.htm
to clone one to the other on demand. I do *not* use RAID because I want
control over when a backup copy is made. Unfortunately, I recently fried
my main hard drive and had to send it back.
Yesterday, I received the replacement hard drive from Newegg.com and
have installed it. Since I've now gone through two secondary hard drives
in what I consider to be short order, it's time to figure out why this
is happening. Kony (my thanks to you!) and somebody else (sorry, I can't
find the thread now) suggested that I look into cooling the hard drives.
This makes a lot of sense to me because they're mounted right on top of
one another, and when I touch them after running the computer for a
while, they're both rather warm - bordering on HOT.
Time to cool those puppies.
I've been looking at various fan additions and what I really want to do
is to blow directly ONTO the hard drives in order to maximize heat
removal. This, however, will blow dust onto the hard drives and as Kony
mentioned, "while a drive is sealed, most have a filtered vent hole
still." This means that dust still has a way into the drive, although
it's a difficult path. Thus, I would think that it's better to suck air
away from the drives rather than blow onto them.
Mounting a hard drive in a fan unit that fits into a spare 5.25" bay is
not an option, because I want to cool both hard drives. However, I'm
thinking of additionally adding a 5.25" bay mounted case fan in the
middle bay (I have three) to cool my two DVD drives and provide
additional case ventilation.
But back to the hard drives, I'd like to find something that will mount
so as to suck the hot air right off of the hard drives and out of the
case. I would prefer not to use something that will suck the heat off of
the hard drives and distribute it into the case, but maybe that
additional fan in the 5.25" empty bay will render that concern of no
consequence. Any recommendations?
TIA
http://www.xxcopy.com/index.htm
to clone one to the other on demand. I do *not* use RAID because I want
control over when a backup copy is made. Unfortunately, I recently fried
my main hard drive and had to send it back.
Yesterday, I received the replacement hard drive from Newegg.com and
have installed it. Since I've now gone through two secondary hard drives
in what I consider to be short order, it's time to figure out why this
is happening. Kony (my thanks to you!) and somebody else (sorry, I can't
find the thread now) suggested that I look into cooling the hard drives.
This makes a lot of sense to me because they're mounted right on top of
one another, and when I touch them after running the computer for a
while, they're both rather warm - bordering on HOT.
Time to cool those puppies.
I've been looking at various fan additions and what I really want to do
is to blow directly ONTO the hard drives in order to maximize heat
removal. This, however, will blow dust onto the hard drives and as Kony
mentioned, "while a drive is sealed, most have a filtered vent hole
still." This means that dust still has a way into the drive, although
it's a difficult path. Thus, I would think that it's better to suck air
away from the drives rather than blow onto them.
Mounting a hard drive in a fan unit that fits into a spare 5.25" bay is
not an option, because I want to cool both hard drives. However, I'm
thinking of additionally adding a 5.25" bay mounted case fan in the
middle bay (I have three) to cool my two DVD drives and provide
additional case ventilation.
But back to the hard drives, I'd like to find something that will mount
so as to suck the hot air right off of the hard drives and out of the
case. I would prefer not to use something that will suck the heat off of
the hard drives and distribute it into the case, but maybe that
additional fan in the 5.25" empty bay will render that concern of no
consequence. Any recommendations?
TIA