Cooling suggestions for drive bay in a tower case
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From: terryc on 9 Sep 2009 02:01 On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:07:11 -0700, brassplyer wrote: > I've got an older tower case with a drive bay for 4 h/d's stacked on top > of each other horizontally - and of course baking each other with their > heat output. Mount them vertical and stick a fan or two on the front.
From: fooman on 10 Sep 2009 21:42 brassplyer wrote: > I've got an older tower case with a drive bay for 4 h/d's stacked on > top of each other horizontally - and of course baking each other with > their heat output. > I'm not sure how you "stack 4 drives on TOP of each other HORIZONTALLY" ;-D Please post photo. Try turning the case on it's side . . . Just a thought.
From: terryc on 10 Sep 2009 22:54 On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:42:42 -0700, fooman wrote: > I'm not sure how you "stack 4 drives on TOP of each other HORIZONTALLY" That is how they mount in the tower cases.
From: kony on 11 Sep 2009 17:06 On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:42:42 -0700, fooman <foo(a)bar.com> wrote: >brassplyer wrote: >> I've got an older tower case with a drive bay for 4 h/d's stacked on >> top of each other horizontally - and of course baking each other with >> their heat output. >> > >I'm not sure how you "stack 4 drives on TOP of each other HORIZONTALLY" >;-D Please post photo. > >Try turning the case on it's side . . . > >Just a thought. Horizontally as in... with their longest dimensional plane (top side/label) parallel to the horizon?
From: Rarius on 12 Sep 2009 04:57
brassplyer wrote: > I've got an older tower case with a drive bay for 4 h/d's stacked on > top of each other horizontally - and of course baking each other with > their heat output. My first thought was... Why 4 hard drives? Surely it would be better to replace these with a one or two 1TB drives. Rarius |