Cooling the sides or the top and bottom?

tjoff · Post by **tjoff** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 9:29 am

Hello

When I first saw the zalman heatpipe harddrive solution I wondered why they cooled the sides and not the bottom and top of the drive.
But when my (very) simple watercooling blocks just didn't cool my drives enough it came to me that harddrives might be designed to lead the heat to the sides since thats were they usually have contact with the chassi.

Do you think that I will gett better temperatues when cooling the sides than the top and bottom of the drive? (I'm cooling seagate drives).

And for those that are watercooling their HDs, what watertemperatures and what harddrive temperatures do you get?

My harddrive "waterblocks" consists of a copper tube that is bend and welded to a copper plate which the drive is mounted on. Maybe thats not efficient enough.

(sorry for my english)

Post by **MikeC** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 10:03 am

You'ill be amazed at the info you'll find on the main site. Just look around...

Effective Passive Hard Drive Cooling

tjoff · Post by **tjoff** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 10:46 am

yeah..
missed that

I guess I have to give it a shot