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Originally Posted by buzzby
If your gonna WC a HD you need to cool the sides as they are designed to output the heat from the side panels.
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True.
However, there is always a different way of doing things
I chose to make a large flat water block that covered the bottom of my 3 HDs (2 of which are Raptors). The drives still get quite hot this way. But thats OK because I installed two 80mm fans in the box to circulate air. I also cut up a heatsink and epoxied the pieces onto the block. That way the air gets cooled inside the box (where my pump, HD, etc are located). Refer to the pics before for a better idea of what I am talking about.
Not trying to start an arguement here or anything. Just describing the way I did it.
EDIT: Here is a pic of the HD block with the heatsinks on it. Again, the reason they are there is to cool the air in the box (since its a practically a sealed chamber where the HDs are)
With these heatsinks and two 80mm fans circulating air the temp inside the box never gets above 29'C and the HDs are cool to the touch.
