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With baracuda's I would agree with you. I used to use them alot but for speed I went for the raptors which a scorchingly fast but also loud and hot. (10K drives) To kill the noise I put them in an enclosure. To find a hardrive enclosure rated for 10K drives that doesn't scream isnt easy. Plus I got a good trade on the HDD block and it looks good.
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If your raptors are getting hot then you have some serious flow problems in your case. Mine gets 1C hotter than my Seagate when I run it hard awhile. I think it actually idles lower because of the big heatsinks they have on them. Watercooling hard drives is a waste of time. The only drives that might even be considered would be the 15k seagate scsi drives. If you have a poor case, 99/100 times the cause, then watercooling your hd's is simply making up for a poor case design. We really should address simple things like getting a good case for airflow before we start adding watercooling.