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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. well.. by Turn-X+Alphonse · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This is a lie. The article is clearly wrong.

    "Connect all the power cables and take a sampling of your temperature sensor on your hard drive, using tools such as SMART software. You should notice a dramatic change in temperature such that other cooling methods will no longer be necessary."

    I DARE YOU TO TRY IT! Your HD won't last 5 seconds without the fan you've just attached which would GASP be doing the cooling unlike a little bit of metal..

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  2. So... by 0x20 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Let me get this straight...

    You're saying that bigger fans... move more air than smaller ones?

    It's all just too confusing. Mind you, I'm an alien from a parallel dimension. In my world, it works like this:

    Step 1: Profit!
    Step 2: ...
    Step 3: Hard drive dools down.
    Step 4: Detach small fan from hard drive.