Hard drive waterblocks

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Hey, just wondering if anyone has experience with watercooling hard drives.
I'm planning on switching my system over to watercooling as during the
summer my AC can't get my bedroom down much below 80 F, so aircooling isn't
that effective for me. Anyway, I have looked at watercooling gear and was
thinking about switching my hard drives also to watercooling. Anyway, does
anyone know of any hard drive waterblocks in particular that work well, are
they worth the money in general?
 
Hey, just wondering if anyone has experience with watercooling hard drives.
I'm planning on switching my system over to watercooling as during the
summer my AC can't get my bedroom down much below 80 F, so aircooling isn't
that effective for me. Anyway, I have looked at watercooling gear and was
thinking about switching my hard drives also to watercooling. Anyway, does
anyone know of any hard drive waterblocks in particular that work well, are
they worth the money in general?
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Just removing the CPU's heat effectivly will do a lot to keep the rest
of the system close to ambient. When I've looked, hard disks have an
upper operating temp of 130DegF on th spec sheet, so you have some
room here. You can use fans in combination with the water cooling.

I've always thought of using 2.5 inch laptop drives, I assume
they create less heat and they leave lots of room for airflow.

Before you go into water cooling your disk I suggest you figure out
how to measure the disk's temp. I've used these, fastened to the
disk's case;

http://www.pcpowercooling.com/products/alarmandaccesories/alert/index.htm

(about $15)

If the alarm never goes off yoiu're OK.
 
Al Dykes said:
Just removing the CPU's heat effectivly will do a lot to keep the rest
of the system close to ambient. When I've looked, hard disks have an
upper operating temp of 130DegF on th spec sheet, so you have some
room here. You can use fans in combination with the water cooling.

I've always thought of using 2.5 inch laptop drives, I assume
they create less heat and they leave lots of room for airflow.

Before you go into water cooling your disk I suggest you figure out
how to measure the disk's temp. I've used these, fastened to the
disk's case;

http://www.pcpowercooling.com/products/alarmandaccesories/alert/index.htm

(about $15)

If the alarm never goes off yoiu're OK.
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Well, my DigiDoc takes care of that. The reason I'm concerned is that I've
had two hard drives go "Click of death" - both different brands in this
case. The only thing I can assume is heat so I bought the DigiDoc to
monitor temps, but it being winter, ambient is nice and low: 65-70F. But
every summer a drive dies, so I think I can safely say its the heat. I'm
about to add a blowhole, and a bottom intake for cooler air, but there comes
a point where I don't want my entire case to be made of fans. Hehe.
 
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