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Hard Drive Cooling for 10 Cents

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the easy-fixes dept.

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."

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  1. 10c? by ElPresidente1972 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fan not included, I take it?

    (first post?)

    1. Re:10c? by brunson · · Score: 5, Funny

      I found a way to get huge performance increases out of my Saturn for only 5 dollars.

      I take this $5 towstrap and attach it to the back of this Viper... suddenly my 0-60 times are are cut in half and my mileage is through the roof!

      Thanks, Slashdot.

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  2. only 10c for a bracket. Oh and a fan. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...."

  3. In other news... by AtariDatacenter · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your data called.
    It wants the integrity of its magnetic field back.

  4. Yeah! by ArAgost · · Score: 5, Funny

    *This* is top-grade engineering! This could be used to cool down spacecraft re-entering earth atmosphere :|

  5. Woah! I was so close! by orionware · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

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  6. Be Careful by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Funny
    I also tried mounting a fan to my hard drive with an angle bracket. I found out that you need to be really careful about how deep you drill and tap the mounting holes into the drive.

    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.