Re: Help required to find low temperature SATA drive

Paul,

Thanks

"Paul" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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nobody wrote:
I want to buy a replacement 3.5" 500GB SATA drive to use inside my iNOI
multimedia player. The original drive was a WD5000AAVS-00ZTB0 but I
cannot find a source for this in the UK. I have tried other drives but
they all run too hot and the heat causes the system electronics to
stutter the video.

Can anyone advise of a drive that runs particularly cool?. There is a
system fan but it is very small.

regards

It is a 3.5" desktop drive, with a 5.4W consumption while reading or
writing.

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=338

It is possible the rotational speed on that thing, is variable, according
to
this spec sheet. During periods of inactivity, it might automatically
slow down a bit to reduce heat output. It doesn't say whether it is
nominally 7200RPM or whatever. It does promise 108MB/sec sustained
transfer, under some set of conditions (perhaps near the beginning
of the disk).

http://www.wdc.com/en/library/sata/2879-701229.pdf

Since you know what brands are carried by your local supplies,
you can search the various sites looking for something with
similar characteristics.

Laptop drives offer a power footprint which will be less than the
above. There are three 500GB laptop drives here. You'd need a
mechanical adapter to hold the drive in place.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2000150380+1309740009&Subcategory=380

WD5000BEVT 2.5" 500GB 2.5W read/write 0.85W idle (spinup power not
specified)
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=506

This is an example of a tray that might be used, to adapt
a 2.5" drive to fit a 3.5" opening. The electrical adapter
is IDE and you won't need that if your hardware is SATA.
I've never used one of these, and don't know how the
2.5" screws into place, or if cooling is impeded by the tray
design.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811993005

Have fun,
Paul


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