Silent PC and HD positioning

[Gianmaria Fontana di Sacculmino]

I'm working on a personal project of silent pc;
I have 2 Barracuda 7200.7 s-ata, in raid 1. I'm planning to uncouple
and suspend them elastically in a self made case. One 80mm Papst fan
is cooling the 2 HDs
The question is this: is it OK to position them vertically like this
|| * || with the bottom part of each of them facing out and the fan
blowing between them? the asterisc should be the fan but of course is
going to be much bigger than it shows here The gap between the 2
HDs could be about 2 inches.

 

[chad]

Gianmaria, that should work fine but just be sure to connect the drives
with a wire to the case for grounding. I had a heat-pipe
cooling/quieting contraption which required this before I moved over to
water cooling and a quiet spinpoint drive (with other drives located
elsewhere on a network fileserver.)

That raid1 dual Barracuda setup must really jump!

Here's my totally silent PC: (http://free-backup.info/silent-pc.html)
I'm pretty happy with the results.

- Chad
http://free-backup.info

 

[Gianmaria Fontana di Sacculmino]

Il giorno 4 Oct 2005 11:03:22 -0700, (e-mail address removed) ha scritto:

Gianmaria, that should work fine but just be sure to connect the drives
with a wire to the case for grounding.

Well, the ..."case" is a 40x50x45 sliding drawer made out of plain
walnut wood )) I will better ground the drives to the PS.

Here's my totally silent PC: (http://free-backup.info/silent-pc.html)
I'm pretty happy with the results.

That is the goal building a system which make us happy; building our
boxes is not only getting a good pc but also the fun of messing with
ideas and components It's now 12 years that I assemble pc for me
and my family and I like it a lot.

 

[chad]

Wow, that sounds really cool. Do you post pictures of your wood cases
anywhere?

- Chad
http://free-backup.info

 

[Gianmaria Fontana di Sacculmino]

Il giorno 4 Oct 2005 20:40:40 -0700, (e-mail address removed) ha scritto:

Wow, that sounds really cool. Do you post pictures of your wood cases
anywhere?

Not yet but I'll do that as soon as the box is ready.