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Hard Drive Cooling for 10 Cents
David Tiberio writes "I've bought many hard drive cooling solutions over the years, sometimes spending $50 or more on drive cooling systems that were noisy and did little to cool down the drive. After much tinkering, I discovered a simple solution that cost me only 10 cents per drive... the 1/2 inch bracket. Mounts any 80mm fan to the belly of an internal hard drive."
Fan not included, I take it?
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Uhh that sounds like Microsoft costing.
MS: "We can help you serve customers for only 10c a day!"
Manager: "woohoo. Approved!"
MS: "So your bill is $36.50 for the first year, plus $899 site license, plus $299 Windows licenses for each CPU plus $1599 service contract plus...."
Who knew you could attach things to other things using a bracket and screws? Thanks again Slashdot.
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Your data called.
It wants the integrity of its magnetic field back.
*This* is top-grade engineering! This could be used to cool down spacecraft re-entering earth atmosphere :|
"Anyway..."
> Do they really overheat? How can you tell? When should you worry about it?
Yes. Touch them. Now.
Absolutely. That's why on hot summer days I sit behind a nice cool fan facing away from me.
done.
thanks by the way.
i expect you to be served with a subpeona within the next half an hour.
I was mounting the fan on the OUTSIDe of the case. I was alot cooler but that damn drives kept getting hot! I was so close...
Karma means nothing to me, so suck it...
I use a large diameter steel/concrete structure mounted to a large marble seam underground here. A network of seismometers and a small neural network allows me to maintain the upper half of the steel/concrete at a fixed point relative to the center of the Earth, assuming a spherical model. Brackets attach the drives to the fixed structure, and my case sits around the drives, but never actually touches them.
You to mount this on the outside of the case and that should solve all of your cooling problems.
Just wait until you see the next story, which extolls the incredible power of . . . string.
KFG
I used 1/2-inch deep holes, and the drive wouldn't even fire up when I tried to boot. It turned out that the drive had really flimsy construction, and they had moving parts right under the surface that were immobilized by the screws. The cheap POS wouldn't even work after I took the screws back out.
If you plan to do this, I'd recommend using very short screws; probably no more than 1/8-inch.
All you need is the blade from an old fan, a toothpick, and a 2mm drill.
1. Drill a hole in the drive directly above the platters
2. With some superglue on the end of the toothpick, insert it in the hole so that it sticks to the spindle
3. Glue the blade to the other end of the toothpick.
Now you see, no need for a fan. As long as your drive's running, the fan blade you just installed will be spinning at 5400 (or whatever rpm) your drive is.
Much cheaper than $0.10.