Posted January 24, 200817 yr Modders, you'd better watch your backs, because NEC and Hitachi are creeping up from the backside with some funky-fresh new hard drive cooling technology that will make you feel embarrassed and / or insignificant. The two Japanese powerhouses have developed a technology which knocks down the temperature of standard hard drives using a water-cooled plating, and also reduces noise levels of the storage devices to five decibels quieter than a whisper. The new technique employs noise absorbing, heat conducting plates which surround the drive, and a low-speed radiator fan to keep air moving. The companies say that the material used for the housing is the most efficient ever for conduction of heat, and that the drives are cooled more quickly and with less power. PCs will soon be made available with the drives (at least in Japan) for around
January 24, 200817 yr THAT THINGS HUGE!Where in the hell on a hard drive am I supooesed to put it much less fit 6 of them in my tower...
January 24, 200817 yr Author THAT THINGS HUGE!Where in the hell on a hard drive am I supooesed to put it much less fit 6 of them in my tower...LMAO,yeah, I think that is for a 1 HDD case. LOL. I have 4 HDD's my self currently.
January 24, 200817 yr Author 4 right now too have had 6 before though..I am at 2 320g, 1 80g and 1 200g.I am a little pissed though, I just got my 200g replacement from WD and it runs higher then all my other HDD's by at least 8-10C which causes all the others to get higher. They are at around 42-44C now and that is with a fan next to it. It sometimes gets up to 50C. Edited January 24, 200817 yr by LUZR4LIFE
January 24, 200817 yr Mine are all running at 35 - 39c right now. Is the spacing the same? Is the WD drive sitting on or near the bottom?
January 24, 200817 yr why is 90% of everything on this site irrelevant to me? oh, thats right...64-bit XP on a laptop :sweatingbullets:
January 24, 200817 yr Author Yeah, this one is at the bottom. It just got up to 56C. Now before I put this one in my temps would get no higher than 34. I have 3 fans in my case now so it stays pretty cool. I just got off the phone with WD and they are sending me another one. One of the people I spoke with said that it's normal to run at 55C. LMAO. I got it down to 38 now, luckily it's winter here so I can open my window and turn my room into a deep freezer. LOL
January 24, 200817 yr Author why is 90% of everything on this site irrelevant to me? oh, thats right...64-bit XP on a laptop :sweatingbullets:LMAO runningfool, sorry. I was thinking about checking out 64 bit, but not sure yet. I did make the mistake of using Vista Ultimate 3 time so trying 64 bit shouldn't bee so bad. LOL
January 24, 200817 yr 55c WOW thats pretty high. But hey some of my drives had run higher than that for a long while before I found HDTune...
January 24, 200817 yr Author 55c WOW thats pretty high. But hey some of my drives had run higher than that for a long while before I found HDTune...I use that and HDD Them. I like HDD Therm. it display your HDD temps and also has a Warning and Critical Alarm on it (which you can set, I have warning at 50 and Critical at 55). Which mine went off before I opened the window.
January 24, 200817 yr why is 90% of everything on this site irrelevant to me? oh, thats right...64-bit XP on a laptop :sweatingbullets:Lol I missed your post there for a moment. Yeah 64 bit blows
January 24, 200817 yr I use that and HDD Them. I like HDD Therm. it display your HDD temps and also has a Warning and Critical Alarm on it (which you can set, I have warning at 50 and Critical at 55). Which mine went off before I opened the window.HDD therm? google shows me nothing do you gotta link?
January 24, 200817 yr Author HDD therm? google shows me nothing do you gotta link?Yeah, I made the addon. HDD Thermometer v1.3
January 24, 200817 yr Hmmm, my 500gb's run at about 30'c with no tweaking or anything. The one in my torrent pc runs at 29'c and it's been running for a while now.
January 24, 200817 yr Author Hmmm, my 500gb's run at about 30'c with no tweaking or anything. The one in my torrent pc runs at 29'c and it's been running for a while now.Yeah, my HDD's haven't gotten higher than 34C since I moded my case until I got this replacement from WD. It would be nice to have 4 of these Water Coolers. LOLThats cause there new SATA drives and ok you suck j/kNot sure what you mean? LOL
January 24, 200817 yr Hmmm, my 500gb's run at about 30'c with no tweaking or anything. The one in my torrent pc runs at 29'c and it's been running for a while now.I was replying to this...
January 24, 200817 yr The 80gb in my torrent PC is about 3 years old, so I don't see your point? O_o lol
January 24, 200817 yr You said the 500's first and then mentioned the one in you torrent machine and I assumed you had another 500 there also.I shoulda read your sig.
January 25, 200817 yr i dont know that my HDD has ever gone above 36 degrees (Hitachi 200GB 7200RPM)...is anyone else wishing all these companies would stop screwing around with BS technology like this, and get on the ball with optical processors and affordable SSD hard drives?
January 25, 200817 yr HELL YEAH!! Solid state all the way. Would be damn quick for your main OS drive...
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