Re: HD cooling trick

Dave J. wrote:
I've found that HD's bolt quite adequately to one side of a CD bay, two
screws on one side is tight enough to tolerate knocks without flapping
around, though on the machine I sometimes take away with me I've poked
some thin dowelling through the larger holes and the disks sit on that for
extra support. Could have done without but it's better if things are
firmly fixed if they're gonna be carried around.

I usually spring for these, even if I won't be able to eat for a couple days!
http://www.computerwherehouse.com/acc-bra-001.html

Anyhow, a 3" x 3 " fan then fits almost perfectly into the space offered
by the combined openings of the 2 CD bays.

So the fan blows *at* the drives? From the front or the rear? Does the
air flow through?

So, a small strip of hardboard under the fan (wedges it in place, esp with
the addition of a little superglue) and a 2" X 3" piece of stiff white
card glued onto the inside of the case to fill the rest of the opening.
Looks neat as can be.

I'm afraid I just can't visualize that. Got a pic?

Not sure why I came out with that one, I guess there's so much chatter
around here about cooling that I figured I should share my 'fix' for the
diskspace.

This sounds like exactly what I need to do to shoehorn two big hot drives
into the top of my Antec SLK1650B for video work. Stupid board only
has two SATA ports, though, so one will be PATA (Asus P4P800 SE).
I'll look into this tonight...


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