Sheesh, give it up. You cannot reason through this one by pointing out
that there's a difference in air flow in the two different kinds of
cases. There are too many variables.
No, there aren't unless you want to try to introduce them.
We can in fact know that there is a substantial decrease in
airflow through the HDD bay if one were to take the exact
same case, with the only change being whether the HDD bay
was the traditional style and surrounded the fan such that
all airflow into the system (note I wrote "ALL") flows
through that bay, versus mounting the bay at 90'.
EVERYone can tell there's a
difference in air flow, but no matter how many times you say it, that
doesn't prove that it makes a significant difference in operating temps
of the drives.
Apples and oranges.
The key is noise reduction. Yes, you can certainly throw
some fans in that produce more noise than the system
otherwise needed to produce, and have cool enough drives
with the rotated bay. That's not the point, there is almost
never a case where you couldn't just keep ramping up fan
speed and/or size and # of fans till some problem was
overcome.
The point is what promotes quiet-> silent operation without
significant temp increase. You can't run a fan at inaudible
noise levels then cut that airflow to a fraction with the
sideways bay without it having an impact on not only HDD
temp but as I already mentioned, video card and chipset
temps.
It MAY, but the only way you can be sure there's a
significant difference without measurements and numbers is if the
significant difference is SO significant that you can feel it with your
finger in rigs that are otherwise identical.
Measurements are a good idea. Even so, a significant
difference is not hard to feel with fingers, because these
temps are in a range inbetween human body temp and the
treshold for pain. If it were a different range it would
indeed be harder to "feel".
If everyone used logic like yours, scientific inquiry, indeed, the whole
concept of the scientific method, would come to an end, because you'd
always maintain that you can figure everything out without
experimentation or measurement. Indeed, if turning the drive bay
sideways results in a difference of only a degree or two, which is
entirely possible, then it WOULD make sense to ease construction and
maintenance by turning it sideways.
Or on the other hand, we have you defending something with
no evidence it doesn't matter. Pot calling kettle black?
Let's reduce this to simplest terms. Do you accept that you
have only a small fraction of total case airflow through the
entirety of the HDD bay when it is turned sideways?
Do you accept that airflow cools drives?
Do you accept that given any particular airflow rate needed
to reach a certain temp, that when you achieve multiple
times as much airflow, you then have sufficient margin to
reduce fan speeds by a large amount?
I never claimed a sideways bay will make hard drives fail
from overheating. I claim it is a compromise that results
in worse cooling efficiency in exchange for a minor ease in
drive removal. Take your pick, if you want the latter
that's fine, but trying to pretend there was no compromise
is silly as the prior design was based around the benefits
as stated... otherwise the bays would've been turned 90' all
along.
