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Shoebox9 · 07-23-2006, 08:48 AM

I totally don't understand.

32 drives are going to be amazingly noisy just at idle. You'd never notice two 7v 120 Nexus fans over that circus. I won't even use a single 3.5 drive in my silent system (notebook drives instead) because of the noise.

Seriously, you aren't even talking about isolating the drives vibration from the case, the alum hum alone will be louder than the fans. Just air cool.

I was close to casting my own 10cm thick walled concrete, high density h/d box with h/d water blocks, & a fanless copper car radiator on top. Everything else I can make totally silent in a high performance system, but not 3.5" drives. In the end I was able to put this box (9 drives) into another room instead, and cable through the wall.

07-23-2006, 08:48 AM	#11
Shoebox9 Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Down Under Posts: 23	Re: Fileserver cases that are good for watercooling? I totally don't understand. 32 drives are going to be amazingly noisy just at idle. You'd never notice two 7v 120 Nexus fans over that circus. I won't even use a single 3.5 drive in my silent system (notebook drives instead) because of the noise. Seriously, you aren't even talking about isolating the drives vibration from the case, the alum hum alone will be louder than the fans. Just air cool. I was close to casting my own 10cm thick walled concrete, high density h/d box with h/d water blocks, & a fanless copper car radiator on top. Everything else I can make totally silent in a high performance system, but not 3.5" drives. In the end I was able to put this box (9 drives) into another room instead, and cable through the wall.