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Ultraviolet · 08-17-2005, 11:55 AM

Well, there are a few watercooled PSU's on the market that are absurdly priced and the best one only had a single 18A 12V rail which won't cut it. It seems the best completely silent PSU is the antec phantom 350 cotdt recommended, but I think my system would really be pushing the limits of a single 350 (8 hdds and maybe 2 pumps)--especially at startup. It only has 2 sata connectors though. What would be the effect of splitting these into 8? And since there are 2 12V rails on the antec, am I correct in assuming that each sata connector is on a separate rail? I suppose it would also be possible, though not entirely desirable, to mount this PSU externally on the back of the piece of furniture so it gets far better air circulation than inside.

I really don't want to try an internal watercooling mod to a psu and it doesn't seem that cooling the antec with external WB is possible because of all the fins. But one or two 350's with some creative case designing just may work.

Still the radiator issue though... Has anyone ever tried cooling a system with an actual home heating radiator like in the link I provided in my previous post? It seems it would be an enormous volume of water, but I think that would only be a good thing. Does anyone have any knowledge of US companies (or places that ship to the US) that make all copper radiators?

And just a general computing question: Since I seem to be getting away from the redundant PSU now, what is the effect of a total PSU failure on a RAID-5 array? If it just goes down and will come back up nicely with a new PSU, I can easily live with that. If the array is trashed though...

I really appreciate the knowledge and help so far on this forum.

08-17-2005, 11:55 AM	#31
Ultraviolet Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: US Posts: 22	Well, there are a few watercooled PSU's on the market that are absurdly priced and the best one only had a single 18A 12V rail which won't cut it. It seems the best completely silent PSU is the antec phantom 350 cotdt recommended, but I think my system would really be pushing the limits of a single 350 (8 hdds and maybe 2 pumps)--especially at startup. It only has 2 sata connectors though. What would be the effect of splitting these into 8? And since there are 2 12V rails on the antec, am I correct in assuming that each sata connector is on a separate rail? I suppose it would also be possible, though not entirely desirable, to mount this PSU externally on the back of the piece of furniture so it gets far better air circulation than inside. I really don't want to try an internal watercooling mod to a psu and it doesn't seem that cooling the antec with external WB is possible because of all the fins. But one or two 350's with some creative case designing just may work. Still the radiator issue though... Has anyone ever tried cooling a system with an actual home heating radiator like in the link I provided in my previous post? It seems it would be an enormous volume of water, but I think that would only be a good thing. Does anyone have any knowledge of US companies (or places that ship to the US) that make all copper radiators? And just a general computing question: Since I seem to be getting away from the redundant PSU now, what is the effect of a total PSU failure on a RAID-5 array? If it just goes down and will come back up nicely with a new PSU, I can easily live with that. If the array is trashed though... I really appreciate the knowledge and help so far on this forum.