H20 Cooled HD's?? is there such a thing?

[joshiieeii]

I am putting a system together, water cooling the CPU with a Maze 2 from dangerden, using their water cooling cube, and a Rio 800 pump. I am leaving room for a .water powered HD cooler(Striping supposedly gets them pretty hot). Does anyone know of a water cooled HD heatsink?? (preferably in Copper?? The rest of the system is copper) I have seen a site that had one but it was not copper and I have lost the url

[Colin]

Why? This would add to the coolant temp and increase your CPU temp. I keep four 7200 RPM drives and one 5400 RPM drive cool with one 51 CFM 92 mm fan in a blowhole, on the right side of my case focused on the hard drive cage.

[Bobby Manus]

Yea thats over doing it, try either harddrive coolers or like josh said just throw a fan on the side of it. Im thinking of hanging a 120mm fan from the rack and have it blowing on the back of the harddrives.

[cjtune]

I'm just using the stock Intel P3 fan to cool my HDD (taped it there). But I think HDDs are pretty tolerant of high temps -look at the manufacturer specs. No need to stick heatsinks and the like on it.

On part of it that's vulnerable to heat is the circuitry at the bottom -that's why there's some kinda foam layer betweem the HDD PCB and the HDD casing itself. Last time a friend of mine had a HDD die early (only 1 yr old, *sob*) just because its PCB was facing the PSU! Stupid case design! Some coolers I've seen are to cool that PCB only so it makes more sense to mount a fan blowing at the bottom. Blowing on the top (bare metal) of the HDD is also OK and it'll cool the bottom part as well (indirectly).