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Originally posted by gmat
Wrong. The hottest part of a HDD is actually the engine, which is situated *under* the unit.
All HDDs i've seen have a removable top screwed on and sandwiching an O-ring or a rubber joint. That means, an insulator.
So the hottest part is the underside, which is the same as the sides (half of them at least..). So cooling down the sides is actually the best way to do it.
If you try to cool down the top, you're cooling the 'hot part' through a rubber layer...
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I agree with you there Gmat. However, you can take advantage of the fact that harddrives are designed to lose their heat to the side. Most hdd have big metal ribs running from the spindle motor to the heavy metal parts on the sides of their casings. The Innovatek hdd coolers I have are just watercooling blocks mounted on the sides of the hdd, with added rubber suspension to keep seeking noise down. According to mbm s.m.a.r.t. readouts my Seagate Cuda is 32C, and it really doesn't get any airflow at all.
Btw, the chimney idea may just be the 'outrage' I'm looking for to eliminate fans. Have any links to designs/photos? Would be gratefull. I think fans don't belong in computers. I feel it's against progress to have anything moving (apart from data) in a computer. If I were a billionair, I'd swap my hdds for huge chunks of flash memory
