Originally Posted by clocker
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they must live in the polar regions
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Hard drive mounts and cooling:
Since the stock Silverstone HDD racks had to be removed to accomodate the rad and pump I needed a way to mount the drives in upper bay area.
I've found these finned 3.5 to 5.25" adaptors to be very effective isolating/mounting the Raptors so I'm using them in this build.
In the past I've cooled the drives by mounting fans in front of them in the bezel but I have other plans for the front this time, so different arrangements needed to be made. Fortunately, I just happened to have a pair of adaptors from some Aerocool 140mm fans and they were perfect for this application. Intended to mount the 140mm fans to a standard 120mm hole, the adaptors work perfectly to affix a 120mm fan to the drive mounts- no modifications necessary. My casual and decidedly unscientific testing with a laser thermometer tells me that the hottest areas on a hard drive are the spindle/motor area and the controller PCB (definitely not the sides of the casing as commonly held) and this bottom mounted fan addresses both areas.
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how the crap is that going to be quiet? and if you have water cooling on there why not just got a heatsink for your harddrives and water cool them? because wont that be defeating the purpose of water cooling by using fans?
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It'll be quiet. The fans will spin very slowly.
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Where on the HDD would you apply the waterblocks?
All of the fans (especially those dual 40mm screamers) will be controlled by a rheobus.
Although silence is not the primary objective, I expect this PC will be fairly quiet.
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I can't hear it at all.Where on the HDD would you apply the waterblocks?
All of the fans (especially those dual 40mm screamers) will be controlled by a rheobus.
Although silence is not the primary objective, I expect this PC will be fairly quiet.
Nice-looking project, sir; and a vicarious thrill to watch.
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