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bobkoure · 03-13-2006, 07:38 PM

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...

03-13-2006, 07:38 PM	#63
bobkoure Cooling Savant Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: USA - Boston area Posts: 798	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...