HDD cooler help

[Maximus Nickus]

How can I cool my HDD?

My case has a door...will it still work....?

Its a 7200RPM ATA133 Maxtor it gets rather hot....

[Ottoman]

I dunno if u use watercooling..

but they sell waterblocks for hdds...

or u could always mod your door

[Maximus Nickus]

Heres my cooler:

[Maximus Nickus]

I did want this one but it looks like ot won't go in my case (door) as it putrudes 2".

Help me!!!

[Maximus Nickus]

Originally posted by Ottoman
I dunno if u use watercooling..

but they sell waterblocks for hdds...

or u could always mod your door


Just saw you replied,

I don't have watercooling and never will but I have 600CFM going through my case so I don't need it (sounds incredibly loud...)

ABSOLUTELY NO MODDING!!!

I love my new case and thats it, I'm just wondering how to cool it,
the vent at the front (near bottom) which fits 3x80MM fans blows through the Drive Bays (like a built in HDD cooler)
but the Drive Coolers you buy have HSF's with them and because all my other drives are at the top if my HDD is in one of the bays at the bottom my 1M long Rounded Cables look a bit messy and it only fits in the drive bay next to my CPU, so the CPU only gets HOT air from the HDD (not good) this upped my temps a lot, so will the Drive Coolers you buy work with the door closed?

About a good 5cm clearence between door and bays...

[Diggrr]

You can stealth mod the door to help airfow just by removing some of the "lip" at the bottom of the door. Keeping the same curve, it wouldn't be seen.

If there's already some vents in that slot molded into the door, you could make them bigger, or put some in if there aren't any.

[The Overclocker]

look at the door on our compuer, it should have a gap around the middle bit, this will let air in to the cooler, i dont see why you want to use a hd cooler, you can cool the hard disk with a 80mm fan anyway

[Maximus Nickus]

Basically because of the Height of the Case I can't do that as my .9M long Rounded Cables aren't long enough to do that, I can have the HDD in the highest Drive Bay but then all the Hot air is blown to the CPU!

WIthout the HDD there the CPU gets fresh air and is 2-5C Cooler!