hard drive coolers 0_o

[Necuno]

can someone please advice me on a decent hard drive cooler, was looking at the Thermaltake A2321 Aluminum Hardcano 14 HDD Clamshell Cooler or Vantec VTX-C01-BK Vortex HDD Cooler, but seems that the vantec one requires manual labor with reach reboot.


thnx

 

[Praeses]

Why do you want to cool your hard drive?
http://www.vibrant.com/blog/googles-hard-drive-study-on-sata-disks/

Here are some of Google’s hard drive findings:

1) Temperature surprisingly didn’t have much influence on failure rates.

Warm or cold, Google didn’t report much statistical variance here.

If they get 50C or so, I'd get a cooler but otherwise, nah.
My brother has two CoolerMaster ones which he bought years ago and their lil 40mm fans got clogged by dust and started making a noise so I unplugged them. The whole aluminium enclosure works well enough though.

 

[Toxin]

If they get 50C or so, I'd get a cooler but otherwise, nah.
My brother has two CoolerMaster ones which he bought years ago and their lil 40mm fans got clogged by dust and started making a noise so I unplugged them. The whole aluminium enclosure works well enough though.

Agreed, I had the coolermaster one with the LCD and temp sensors. Wasn't really needed. A simple fan blowing over your drive will be sufficiant.

 

[Gnome]

Make sure you actually need one, before investing

Failure among cold drives are higher than that of hotter running drives.

A common misconception is that a colder hard drive will last longer than a hotter hard drive. The Google study showed the reverse -- "lower temperatures are associated with higher failure rates". Hard drives with S.M.A.R.T.-reported average temperatures below 27 C had failure rates worse than hard drives with the highest reported average temperature of 50 C, failure rates at least twice as high as the optimum S.M.A.R.T.-reported temperature range of 36 C to 47 C

Source: http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf

 

[Praeses]

My one hard drive is 24C (500GB Seagate - worst is 40C) and the other at 27C (160GB Seagate - worst is 42C) atm. Guess I should heat up my drives?

 

[Gnome]

My one hard drive is 24C (500GB Seagate - worst is 40C) and the other at 27C (160GB Seagate - worst is 42C) atm. Guess I should heat up my drives?

Heh, I got some Green Power Western Digital drives that were also very low on the temp side. I just removed the fan the was blowing directly on them now the drives are perfectly in that optimal temperature spec.

Of course it's important to note that they don't specify which brands were used in testing, so it can easily differ between manufacturers.

 

[Praeses]

Of course it's important to note that they don't specify which brands were used in testing, so it can easily differ between manufacturers.

Yeah, would actually be interesting to see which brands prefer which temps.

 

[.Froot.]

Well as long as your hard drives doesn't generate moisture, the temperature is fine. (ie it doesn't matter all that much if it is hot to the touch)

 

[MrE]

Forget HDD coolers..

 

[SanchoP]

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[Necuno]

ok so only 50c and more otherwise i can leave my sata as it is...

 

[Necuno]

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=4

 

[.Froot.]

Yeah. Excactly.