Re: Galden ZT 150
 

Thanks, actually a page or so ago, I mentioned that I was going just this route with the hard drives and, in lieu of building something, will likely grab 4 of these http://www.koolance.com/shop/product...roducts_id=231 as you can mount 2 hard drives to either of these. I haven't fully settled on exactly what materials I'm going to use to isolate the drives--definitely mdf and ???

I was also considering the Samsung Spinpoints until I discovered that you have to disable the quiet mode, or whatever it's called, when used with 3ware cards. I'll probably just stick with my Seagates for now and enjoy the 5 year warranty.

Off topic: bobkoure, I notice you're in the Boston area--so am I. Maybe you'd be interested in seeing/advising on this monstrosity once I actually begin?

Re: Galden ZT 150
 

I'd buy a PolarFLO HDD46 Copper Dual Hard Drive Liquid Heat Sink instead.

http://www.polarflo.com/ProductImage...d46/iso500.jpg

It's a pretty nice design with copper, delrin and low restriction, I'm thinking about building something similar to cool my PSUs and HDDs.

I stumbled over this auction yesterday. I asked him how much three of them would cost and he could sell three for $50 each. I would have brought three if it wasn't for the killer shipping cost to Sweden, $100! :cry:

Re: Galden ZT 150
 

Not clear how a second drive mounts to that - looks like the "bottom" plate has cutaways so you can fasten screws into the underside of the drive on top of it.
I'm pretty sure hard drives are designed to transmit heat to their sideplates (ran a little experiment - took mine out, put heat sink compound on the sides - turning the drive cage into a heat sink and reported drive temps went down a bit - don't remember how much but it wasn't enough to get excited about) and these coolers do contact the sideplates - but only very small area...

Re: Galden ZT 150
 

Yes I belive they design hdds to transmit heat through the sides. I would like to see a block like this with the disks mounted under it. Heat travels up so most of it would end up in the wb. I wonder if it would be enough with one heatsink?

___ -> block
||||| -> disks

Just an idéa...

Re: Galden ZT 150
 

And I'd like to see side-mounted heatsinks. Just plates, say (so it'd be easy to have holes for disk mounting) with 1/2" or 3/8" copper tubing soldered (or brazed or silver soldered) in a serpentine shape, avoiding the mount holes. And maybe some rubber blocks with inletted nuts facing out to facilitate mounting in 5 1/4" drive space (not sure about that latter as IMHO if you're not sealing the drives up in some sort of box there's really no reason to water cool.
And, actually, given fairly quiet disks to start with (like the spinpoints as seagate sadly seems to have lost interest in making the quietest drives) and suspension (or other means to isolate seek-induced vibration transmission) and some sort of noise absorbtive material inside the case (or lining the baffle, if you've a baffled case) then IMHO you can have very quiet disks and still be cooling with air.
The challenge comes when you're trying for a very quiet system using SCSI drives. W/C ing very possibly makes sense there...


PS: the forum software keeps changing "o u t w a r d s" (without the spaces to) *****ds. How exactly is this a rude word? PM if you need to explain in a rude way :)

Re: Galden ZT 150
 

Ahh because remember that scam thing people were doing a long time ago with "out-war" ? :) so we banned that word. I will remove that from being filtered.

Re: Galden ZT 150
 

Outwards <-- all fixed

Re: Galden ZT 150
 

Y'know, I really don't remember - some kind of FPS?
Anyway, thanks for putting it back and I promise not to use it in a bad way :)