First Prototype of internally cooled Hard Drive!

Turando · Jan 22, 2003

Hi folks, thought i would liven up the modding forum

This is a first of many ventures into internally water cooling a Hard drive, obviously this will include LED's etc etc. but as i said, its a prototype

managed to create a 5gb partition on this, but its a 6gb, so obviously this one wont last too too long as i had to have it open a bit for measuring and checking. ps. noone nick my ideas

PICS!!!

CPFitz14 · Jan 22, 2003

Man.....I'm all excited...but your pics don't work.

Can't wait to see it. How did you do it? A little more info, or a tutorial on the front page would be awesome.

-CPFitz-

edit: Now you have the links.....but your website doesn't allow direct linking or whatever. And those popups are horrific, it tried to download gator on my comp at least 3 times.

Try hosting them at www.theforumisdown.com

Turando · Jan 22, 2003

OK pics are fixed, and i know it doesent look like much, but its a start, will be many followups on this, i knocked this up in a few hours inbetween revision for tests 2moro

Cheers, Turando

donny_paycheck · Jan 22, 2003

They work now.

This is an incredible mod, even if the disk only works for a week. Take some pics with the lights off and the LEDs on!

You win.

eaglescouter · Jan 22, 2003

Very intersting.

I have no experience with overheated hard drives though. Is there a heat problem that I don't know about?

Or was this just too cool of an idea so it had to be done?

Turando · Jan 22, 2003

cheers

will take more pics when i have a bit of time on my hands

this is pending a patent so hopefully noone can produce this kind of mod

Cheers, Turando

Turando · Jan 22, 2003

eaglescouter, it was more of a not been done as of yet, so why not

also this did get very hot, and using a small fish tank pump and small tubing kept it very cool.

all questions are welcome.

CHeers, Turando

UnseenMenace · Jan 22, 2003

Just a thought, that pipe appears to be copper and hard drives appear to be magnetic disks.. is'nt this a sure fire way to data loss ?

Turando · Jan 22, 2003

i tried as much as i could to de-magnatise the copper, and it was totally resistant. wether it stays like that is another matter, thats the point of a prototype

Diggrr · Jan 22, 2003

Don't all the larger drives have two platters and multiple heads?
If so, I think you're running out of room....

Mad props for pulling that off though...

Crash893 · Jan 22, 2003

how does that cool its not acutally touching anything is it

Turando · Jan 22, 2003

Diggrr , in theory yes, but alot of the 120gb have single platters, this was pulled out of an old HP.

crash893, you dont have to have direct contact to cool, to cool well you do. the air that is around the plater does kind of convect as the friction from the head acts like a fan, so the air inside is being (theoretically) cooled

mbentley · Jan 22, 2003

i am sure it would cool some... run cold water through there and the heat inside the drive transfers to the copper, into the water and out again, taking heat out. a little chem for ya there

i gotta give you props for a sweet idea... it's definitely new to me.

donny_paycheck · Jan 22, 2003

Turando said:
i tried as much as i could to de-magnatise the copper, and it was totally resistant. wether it stays like that is another matter, thats the point of a prototype

Copper is non ferrous. You don't have to worry about permanent magnetism.

BlueWraith · Jan 22, 2003

20megs bandwidth exceeded.

Turando · Jan 22, 2003

oh right, thanks for clearing that up donny

, BlueWraith

i was waiting for that

will re post them somewhere 2moro

koby · Jan 22, 2003

no pics... limit exceeded

i must see the hard drive

find someone else to host

IFMU · Jan 22, 2003

Excellent work man. Very nice indeed.

If I may make a suggestion?

Now I realize this wouldnt be needed in all cases, but for those that do I was thinking of a way that you could approve above that.

First, dump the piping. Too little for too much area.

Next thing. I would check into doing a few things. Like for one say take a block of sorts, say kinda like the type they have that go on top (or under) the drive. Shrink it some. And make a channel to go in and out.
Add in some rouch surface area to the outside. Maybe even some very very small fins? Might help some...

This make sense?! LoL

mbentley · Jan 22, 2003

i'd have to agree that you would need to dumb the pipe or rework it because with a higher capacity drive, you won't be able to fit it, cause like somebody else said, the platters take up all the space.

SlowChemical · Jan 22, 2003

that's pretty sweet...

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