Creative Approaches To Mounting Zalman's Passive Drive Cooler?

[Paul]

The one with blue sides and tubes over the top - makes the drive
quite a bit wider than a bay.

Zalman suggests drilling mounting holes in the case, but my Sonata
doesn't have the space.

I'm tempted to just suspend the thing in the case with a couple
bungees on each end and try to remember not to rock the case...

Doesn't the Sonata have a hard drive bay facing you, and the normal
bay intended for CD drives ? It looks like the Zalman is intended to
fit in a CD drive footprint, so maybe attaching some CD drive
slides, to the side mounted dampers, will make the cooler fit the
CD rack ? (My CD drive did not fit easily in the Sonata, so expect
a fight with the fit.)

Now, those dampers had better be pretty stiff, if they are going
to hold up a disk drive...

The Zalman manual also shows a drive being mounted to the bottom of
the computer case, by drilling four holes in the bottom of the
case, then using the four dampers vertically. That would work
the same way as the Sonata "trays" for the hard drive bay.

Of course, if you are a "burner freak", you won't have any
spare CD bays

On one of my computer cases, I have a 120mm fan mounted in a
custom frame, that bolts to the front of the computer case.
The frame is made from aluminum angle iron from the hardware
store. The fan covers three drive bays, leaving the top (CD) bay
accessible. The fan runs on a Fanmate, at less than 12V, and
is pretty quiet. The drive fan helps the hard drives get
outside air, instead of sitting in a pool of stale air.
None of the fans on this case are cranked up. This would
be an alternative to the Zalman solution.

\/ | Drive1 ---> PSU \/|
/\ | Drive2 air /\|
| Exhaust \/|
| \/ Intake fan /\|
| /\ fan |

 

[(Pete Cresswell)]

The one with blue sides and tubes over the top - makes the drive quite a bit
wider than a bay.

Zalman suggests drilling mounting holes in the case, but my Sonata doesn't have
the space.

I'm tempted to just suspend the thing in the case with a couple bungees on each
end and try to remember not to rock the case...