hrmm interesting ideas... well MY purpose for all of this was to:
1: have LESS fans in my system, and this also provided an overall less space consuming way for cooling TWO drives and
2: extend the life of my drives
the copper was chosen of course because i want an all copper system
also.. the design of the block i found REALLY doesnt matter.. the heat given off spreads over the block... Keeping the block cool is what matters..
the biggest limitation on cooling a hard drive is the hard drive it self... hard drives are not designed to have something mounted to it to transfer the heat... they are designed to disipate their own heat.
For instance, my hard drive has a raised aluminum plate on one side (so heat pretty much as to conduct through the casing and then through the edges of the plate and then to the block). The other side is the circuitry, and that side has little raised edges along the sides where the screw holes are (terrible for heat transfer).
so in the end, without modification to the drive you arent gonna get SUPER cooling. but why would you want to do that to the only moving part in your computer? it may cause it to lockup or something, which i have expereince putting a homegrown mp3 player in my car (im live in wisconsin and the winter killed my drives)
so with the block i designed i feel very happy with the results of having my drive around 30C when it is in the very last position of a series loop with a CPU, Video, Chipset before it.
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