I would like to do the foam method at the back to keep the HDD at the rear of the case where the noise will hopefully be less audible, but as you mentioned cooling is a concern and if only I had something to use to make some big heatsinks for the HDD sides. Just fish around for some unused Hifi amp...

Aha, thanks for the tip !

Unfortunately, pharmacies (at least here) usually mean mucho euro

In the meantime I've found someone who knows someone who works in a hospital lab, maybe I can scavenge a couple that way (as the original poster did, I think)...

I'd like to try out this creative use of coolant packs for disk drives while my case is still open for urgery (WC etc. :-)... but after googling around a bit and dragging my weary feet in a few department stores it seems that this particular breed is really hard to come across over here. All I can f...