Has anyone had experience with one of those 5 inch hard drive bays, that
goes under the CD for example, that have fans in the front? If there
already is a reasonably sufficient fan in the front already, would the
extra fans be overkill?

In article <Xns960E7F9969819kevsmail@216.168.3.44>,
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> Has anyone had experience with one of those 5 inch hard drive bays, that
> goes under the CD for example, that have fans in the front? If there
> already is a reasonably sufficient fan in the front already, would the
> extra fans be overkill?
>



It depends on the temperature in your case.

Kev <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:Xns960E7F9969819kevsmail@
216.168.3.44:

> Has anyone had experience with one of those 5 inch hard drive bays,
that
> goes under the CD for example, that have fans in the front? If there
> already is a reasonably sufficient fan in the front already, would the
> extra fans be overkill?

Generally speaking, cooler is always better when it comes to electronic
components. Hard drives are extremely precise and heat will really take a
toll on their accuracy and performance. Naturally they have callibration
circuits built in to compensate for the heat but if you keep the heat to
a minimum, the drive will last longer and perform better.

I use the drive bays because I want to get the maximum bang for my buck.
If you have the drives stacked tight, those tiny fans can make a sizable
difference in the operating temp while performing DVD burn, gaming or
defrag..

Thagor <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:Xns960F366EFDthagmailcoma@207.115.63.158:

> Kev <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:Xns960E7F9969819kevsmail@
> 216.168.3.44:
>
>> Has anyone had experience with one of those 5 inch hard drive bays,
> that
>> goes under the CD for example, that have fans in the front? If there
>> already is a reasonably sufficient fan in the front already, would
>> the extra fans be overkill?
>
> Generally speaking, cooler is always better when it comes to
> electronic components. Hard drives are extremely precise and heat will
> really take a toll on their accuracy and performance. Naturally they
> have callibration circuits built in to compensate for the heat but if
> you keep the heat to a minimum, the drive will last longer and perform
> better.
>
> I use the drive bays because I want to get the maximum bang for my
> buck. If you have the drives stacked tight, those tiny fans can make a
> sizable difference in the operating temp while performing DVD burn,
> gaming or defrag..
>

Thank you both. I finally got my external drive to work, after about 30
minutes of teeth clenching because it wasnt recognised. But finally it
did... loose cable I think.

Earlier when opening up the case to put the firewire card in I noticed
that one of the drives inside was whirring like a turbine. Maybe its
always been that way but I dont remember it doing it that much, but it
has been beaten to death with read/writes. Its a WD 40GB that I have
planned on using to experiment with Linux on.

The new one in the enclosure is a seagate, and even with the top plate
off and copying lots of data I could hardly hear it running.

cheers :-)