thermal gel for hard drive?

DigitalChaos · 02-11-2002, 09:33 AM

anyone know where to get some thermal stuff for hard drives?
Koolance uses some type of thermal gel to put their hard drive block onto hard drives... its like a paste that turns to an almost rubber material when it sets... then you can just peel it off when you want to remove it...
im looking for something like this... or some type of sollution to thermally conduct from my hard drive to block.

gmat · 02-11-2002, 10:29 AM

A can of 500g of thermal compound would be OK

Usually HDs are well sealed so it should be no problem.
(the company next door has an extruder - they use full buckets of copper thermal coumpound - so getting those quantities is easy hehe)

DigitalChaos · 02-11-2002, 12:03 PM

im looking for something NON electrically conductive, AND non messy.

decodeddiesel · 02-11-2002, 01:22 PM

Use regular white silicon based Radio Shack stuff, thats what I would do. You've got such a huge surface area you don't need anything like AS2, normal thermal paste should work fine.

DigitalChaos · 02-11-2002, 03:45 PM

NON messy
i dont wanna have to scrub my hard drives, and (if possible) i want something that will fill a few mm gap (HDblock to the different chips on the controllercard.

pHaestus · 02-11-2002, 07:39 PM

What about that pocofoam stuff? I dunno if it ever became commercially available it would be well suited to this sort of thing.

Brad · 02-12-2002, 03:34 AM

try buying some stuff from Koolance, make up some bs story about you losing some of the thermal stuff they gave you when you bought it

Pyrotechnic · 02-12-2002, 09:12 PM

the HDD cooler was meant to cool 2 hard drives, so just get the 2nd kit which i think is that thermal junk.

02-11-2002, 09:33 AM	#1
DigitalChaos Cooling Savant Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Waukesha, Wi Posts: 698	thermal gel for hard drive? anyone know where to get some thermal stuff for hard drives? Koolance uses some type of thermal gel to put their hard drive block onto hard drives... its like a paste that turns to an almost rubber material when it sets... then you can just peel it off when you want to remove it... im looking for something like this... or some type of sollution to thermally conduct from my hard drive to block.

02-11-2002, 01:22 PM	#4
decodeddiesel Cooling Savant Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: classified Posts: 534	Use regular white silicon based Radio Shack stuff, thats what I would do. You've got such a huge surface area you don't need anything like AS2, normal thermal paste should work fine. __________________ ...i hurt... do me a favor, disconect me... they can re-work me but i'll never be top of the line again ...i'd rather be nothing...

02-12-2002, 03:34 AM	#7
Brad Thermophile Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Nuu Zeeelin Posts: 3,175	try buying some stuff from Koolance, make up some bs story about you losing some of the thermal stuff they gave you when you bought it __________________ 2x P3 1100's at 1400, Abit VP6, 2x Corsair 256mb PC150 sticks, 20gb 'cuda ATA-III, 2x 40gb 'cuda ATA-IV in raid 0. 20" Trinitron. No fans 2x 2400+ at 2288mhz (16.0 x 143), Iwill MPX2, 2x Kingmax PC-3200 256mb sticks, 4x 20gb 60gxp in Raid 5 on a Promise SX6000. Asus Ti4200 320/630. Cooled by Water

02-11-2002, 10:29 AM	#2
gmat Thermophile Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: France Posts: 1,221	A can of 500g of thermal compound would be OK Usually HDs are well sealed so it should be no problem. (the company next door has an extruder - they use full buckets of copper thermal coumpound - so getting those quantities is easy hehe)

02-11-2002, 12:03 PM	#3
DigitalChaos Cooling Savant Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Waukesha, Wi Posts: 698	im looking for something NON electrically conductive, AND non messy.

02-11-2002, 03:45 PM	#5
DigitalChaos Cooling Savant Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Waukesha, Wi Posts: 698	NON messy i dont wanna have to scrub my hard drives, and (if possible) i want something that will fill a few mm gap (HDblock to the different chips on the controllercard.

02-11-2002, 07:39 PM	#6
pHaestus Big Player Making Big Money Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: irc.lostgeek.com #procooling.com Posts: 4,782	What about that pocofoam stuff? I dunno if it ever became commercially available it would be well suited to this sort of thing.

02-12-2002, 09:12 PM	#8
Pyrotechnic Cooling Savant Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 240	the HDD cooler was meant to cool 2 hard drives, so just get the 2nd kit which i think is that thermal junk.

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