HDD cooler/silencing
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2004 8:30 pm
hey, i thaught id post this up here, just show ya how i did it..
firsatly (this probly dosnt apply here ) but alot of people think its stupid and a waste of time to bother doing this to cool your hard drives, i did it so that i could insulate my drives and try to sound proof them a little.
ok its pretty basic but.. (sorry for the bad quality of the photos)
i made 2 of them, one for each drive..
thats just the pipes and basically how it will fit togeather where the 'L' joints are the tubes are just cut at 45 degree angles
all joints are made by brazing them, it could be soldered but id prefer brazed joints (id use ezy-flow or silfos rods but i used something i already had which im not exactly sure what was but anyway..)
layed out in the case it will be going in:
the case is actually just an old CD drive with all the insides taken out (obviously ill have 2 of these) it will have some sound proofing foam put in them which i dont have yet
just after putting it togeather without the end 'L' bit so that i could lap them before finishing it off:
pretty messy, needs quite a bit of lapping (ya cant really see from the pic but the surface is quite uneven
these pictures are pretty bad (crappy light and crappy camera) but this is after i finished them up, they not exactly that clean looking (not that theykl ever be seen when theyre in the computer) but the surface that goes on the side of the drive is pretty smooth, dosnt look it in the pics though..
clamped to the old drive..
i installed them, unfortunatly no pics of this but you get the idea anyway, i just clamped on a bit of tube to the ends of the 'L's put some cheap 'sil-more' heatsink compound on the sides of them, screwed them onto my drives and put them in their cases with the sound proofing foam and clamped on my tubing
i have them running in parallel off my 3 barb CPU block
oh yeah results.. well i didnt rwally do any before/after testing and for some reason the hdd temperature read by various programs is the same but always off by somthing like 5 degrees C but.. before i had the coolers with the drives just mounted in the bays the temperature was said to be about 24-26 degrees C from just doing basic stuff like browsing the net and playing music etc. now its between 16-18 degrees C. the sound has gone down ALOT partly from being taken out from the drive bays (damn that vibration *shakes fist at drive bay*) and the humming noise from the discs just spinning has prettymuch gone unless i put my ears right next to the case so im pretty happy with it so far
i guess i have to say thanks to 'lolito_fr' at procooling mostly (http://forums.procooling.com/vbb/showth ... hlight=hdd), i already had the idea but he showed that it would work good enough to cool a HDD, and yeah.. the rest of the ppl at procooling and here
{edit} -- ok.. i just shoved a thermomiter in each of them, just so it was sitting on top of the drive, it measured about 24.5-25 degrees C in both the room temp is 20 degrees C and water temp is about 22c in the res. note that these temps arent comparable to the ones i said before because they were from the SMART crap which is WAY off
firsatly (this probly dosnt apply here ) but alot of people think its stupid and a waste of time to bother doing this to cool your hard drives, i did it so that i could insulate my drives and try to sound proof them a little.
ok its pretty basic but.. (sorry for the bad quality of the photos)
i made 2 of them, one for each drive..
thats just the pipes and basically how it will fit togeather where the 'L' joints are the tubes are just cut at 45 degree angles
all joints are made by brazing them, it could be soldered but id prefer brazed joints (id use ezy-flow or silfos rods but i used something i already had which im not exactly sure what was but anyway..)
layed out in the case it will be going in:
the case is actually just an old CD drive with all the insides taken out (obviously ill have 2 of these) it will have some sound proofing foam put in them which i dont have yet
just after putting it togeather without the end 'L' bit so that i could lap them before finishing it off:
pretty messy, needs quite a bit of lapping (ya cant really see from the pic but the surface is quite uneven
these pictures are pretty bad (crappy light and crappy camera) but this is after i finished them up, they not exactly that clean looking (not that theykl ever be seen when theyre in the computer) but the surface that goes on the side of the drive is pretty smooth, dosnt look it in the pics though..
clamped to the old drive..
i installed them, unfortunatly no pics of this but you get the idea anyway, i just clamped on a bit of tube to the ends of the 'L's put some cheap 'sil-more' heatsink compound on the sides of them, screwed them onto my drives and put them in their cases with the sound proofing foam and clamped on my tubing
i have them running in parallel off my 3 barb CPU block
oh yeah results.. well i didnt rwally do any before/after testing and for some reason the hdd temperature read by various programs is the same but always off by somthing like 5 degrees C but.. before i had the coolers with the drives just mounted in the bays the temperature was said to be about 24-26 degrees C from just doing basic stuff like browsing the net and playing music etc. now its between 16-18 degrees C. the sound has gone down ALOT partly from being taken out from the drive bays (damn that vibration *shakes fist at drive bay*) and the humming noise from the discs just spinning has prettymuch gone unless i put my ears right next to the case so im pretty happy with it so far
i guess i have to say thanks to 'lolito_fr' at procooling mostly (http://forums.procooling.com/vbb/showth ... hlight=hdd), i already had the idea but he showed that it would work good enough to cool a HDD, and yeah.. the rest of the ppl at procooling and here
{edit} -- ok.. i just shoved a thermomiter in each of them, just so it was sitting on top of the drive, it measured about 24.5-25 degrees C in both the room temp is 20 degrees C and water temp is about 22c in the res. note that these temps arent comparable to the ones i said before because they were from the SMART crap which is WAY off