Water Cooling System for Hard Disk Drives (HDD)
I guess all of you would be aware of water cooling systems for CPU and graphics cards, now NEC and Toshiba have announced the world’s first water cooling system for hard disk drives. These systems were initially developed for top of the line audio visual machines but looks like it would be available for the masses. The companies claim that the maximum noise that these cooling systems emit would be only 25db. The pricing of this cooling system is not revealed as of now but I guess it would be expensive atleast initially.
Pictures of Water Cooling System for Hard Disk Drives (HDD): (click to enlarge)
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In my experience I have found that hard disk drives are one of the hottest things that reside in your cabinet after CPU, motherboard and graphics chipset. So people who are thinking on improving the ventilation of your cabinet should consider this product if you can afford the price that this product would command. Currently I have 3 fans serving the purpose of cooling and ventilation, out of these 3 fans one is dedicated to hard disk drives alone. If you are very serious about your hard disk drives then this the best gift you give your hard disk drive as this would make it run lot more cooler.
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I seriously wonder if liquid cooling is needed for the HDDs. There are separate HDD coolers that cost less and do a good job as well. Also, after dedicating much space for coolers to the processor, graphics card etc one would hardly have the space in the cabinet
A bit of overkill I think… may appeal to the ‘hardcore’ crowd though I dont see how. A ‘normal’ HDD cooler is probably all you need for normal drives…..given that you ain’t gonna overclock a 7200.10 now, are ya?
I have my 2 drives positioned right in front of the casing’s 80 mm fan that draws in cool air into the case. Never had a problem with overheating so far. Maybe there is always a first time
But I hope those cooling tubes hold up…wouldn’t want a leak to fry the drive and all the precious data on it. Fried GPUs and CPUs are replacable, data is not.
Vijay-
Liquid cooling is required for HDDs if they run for long period of times.
Mahesh-
I use a 120mm fan that draws in cool air from outside but still in summers the drives get pretty hot. (Indian summers are very bad).
And more over my machine runs 24×7 so this liquid cooling solution for HDDs would be pretty much useful. More over the normal HDD cooler will get clogged after sometime due to dust there reducing its efficiency.
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