My new Lian-Li PC65B arrived today woot!
...anyways, I was wondering where would be the best place to mount the hard drives to maximise airflow. Lian-Li cases have the 3.5 drive bay cage thing right infront of the two intake fans at the front bottom, this cage can hold five drives vertically and four (I think) horizontally. There is also three 3.5 drive bays above the intake fans in the usual position for the floppy disk drive. There is four 5.25 drive bas at the top aswell.
Now my PC has two hard drives so I was going to put one in the bottom bay of the three bays, if you get what I mean. So it is like:
Floppy
---empty---
Hard drive 1
Now I am unsure where to put the second hard drive. I do not want to block the intake fans airflow too much because I am not overly worried about cooling the hard drives, although I would like the main hard drive with the OS on to be slightly cooled. I was thinking of putting the main HDD in a vertical position to the back of the case, by back I mean away from the window so its next to the side the motherboard attached to.
My top 5.25 bay is filled with a fan controller that has room to hold a HDD but it would be above the CDRW and DVD drive and have no airflow so I thought this was a bad place to position it.
Is this setup a good idea or is there better? I am just looking for confirmation really or a suggestion for something I missed.
...anyways, I was wondering where would be the best place to mount the hard drives to maximise airflow. Lian-Li cases have the 3.5 drive bay cage thing right infront of the two intake fans at the front bottom, this cage can hold five drives vertically and four (I think) horizontally. There is also three 3.5 drive bays above the intake fans in the usual position for the floppy disk drive. There is four 5.25 drive bas at the top aswell.
Now my PC has two hard drives so I was going to put one in the bottom bay of the three bays, if you get what I mean. So it is like:
Floppy
---empty---
Hard drive 1
Now I am unsure where to put the second hard drive. I do not want to block the intake fans airflow too much because I am not overly worried about cooling the hard drives, although I would like the main hard drive with the OS on to be slightly cooled. I was thinking of putting the main HDD in a vertical position to the back of the case, by back I mean away from the window so its next to the side the motherboard attached to.
My top 5.25 bay is filled with a fan controller that has room to hold a HDD but it would be above the CDRW and DVD drive and have no airflow so I thought this was a bad place to position it.
Is this setup a good idea or is there better? I am just looking for confirmation really or a suggestion for something I missed.