I've been having a problem with heated HDD's lately. I have three, and they are on top of each other, and are usually hovering around 45ºC - 51ºC.
To me, this is too hot.. especially since it's heating up my entire room. It's funny how little I had to do to remedy this problem. I just removed my floppy, and put my primary drive in it's place.. so that it's away from the other drives.
I mounted a fan above that HDD, that consistantly blows air down on it. For the two remaining drives, I mounted another fan in behind them, blowing over over and through them.
It's unreal.. because now the primary HDD never goes above 29ºC, and the other two hover around 30ºC and 31ºC. You can check the thumbnail out if you want, to see what I mean.
What a difference it made, and it's so freaking easy :-/
To me, this is too hot.. especially since it's heating up my entire room. It's funny how little I had to do to remedy this problem. I just removed my floppy, and put my primary drive in it's place.. so that it's away from the other drives.
I mounted a fan above that HDD, that consistantly blows air down on it. For the two remaining drives, I mounted another fan in behind them, blowing over over and through them.
It's unreal.. because now the primary HDD never goes above 29ºC, and the other two hover around 30ºC and 31ºC. You can check the thumbnail out if you want, to see what I mean.
What a difference it made, and it's so freaking easy :-/
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