This looks like a nice way of building a case, it's just layers of laser cut aluminium bolted together with the cpu heatsink bolted to everything else
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/05/ubun ... n-detailed

Yes it is possible, this guy did it http://www.vonslatt.com/proj-cc.shtml

As other people have mentioned you need the radiator at the top and use nice big tubing to reduce impedance.

That is exactly the question. I have put a bid in for a huge heatsink on ebay, 300x180mm but still like the the idea of the baffle and have come up with this as an idea

Thanks for all the comments, I think I'm going to start on a new case, though I will make a proper back plate with some foam on it as the one on there was only a quick test thing and as thejamppa pointed out, it's quite flawed. I'm torn between going nice and open with extra heat sinks poking into a...

This is my very DIY build. I've tried out many ideas along the way and it all was made up as I went so there are still many improvements to be made and features that no longer serve any purpose. The end result is a resounding success, I have to try very hard, and often fail, to be able to hear it an...

And you can add a graph of your hdd temp to the top panel alongside your cpu and gpu with sensors-applet, once installed right click on the top panel, select add to panel and choose Hardware sensors monitor

I do exactly this using Ubuntu. Simply type into the terminal sudo hdparm -S60 /dev/sda and it will set your first hard drive to power down after 5 minutes (S 60 x 5 seconds = 600 s + 5 minutes), you can then do the same for /dev/sd b /dev/sd c ect. You can also put a drive to sleep on command with ...