Make a Fan to Cool Down an External Hard Drive

gaschalk · Sep 17, 2009 1 0 18,510 0

I have different terabit external drives that hold open weakness when the temp in the room hits around 30 deg.cel. What is the best way to keep these drives cool with keeping the be down.

danevil · Sep 13, 2009 21 0 18,510 0

I have several terabit external drives that keep failing when the temp in the room hits roughly 30 deg.cel. What is the superior way to keep these drives cool with keeping the cost down.

crank high the A.C lolz. seriously though im unaware of external hdd coolers your best bet would cost keep them low out of direct sun or heat diverging electronics and a 15$ home fan to circularise more air through vents might help.

sminlal · Jul 10, 2009 6,355 2 27,965 617

I've standardized on using the WD Sick drives in my international USB enclosures because they run noticeably tank than my early drives.

photonboy · Jun 20, 2006 21,576 8 85,015 4,366

1) A smashing aluminum external case.
2) A case with a sports fan (noisy).
3) A grammatical case like the BlacX which has the heavily drive sitting exposed to the air (world-class but not practical for moving)

FYI, you mean Terabyte, not Terabit (in computers, the smallest unit of measure is a "bit". A Byte is eight bits. In computers, normally we deal with binary measurement so "Mega" is 1024x "Kilo" alternatively of 1000. Depot is the elision. A T drive is actually 1000000000 bits. To calculate "substantial" computing device Bytes we divide away 1024. The unformatted storage is 1000000000/1024/1024 Gigabytes. Once a TB drive away has been formatted AND shrewd based in computer Bytes (humble 2) we have 930GB free for storage.)

photonboy · Jun 20, 2006 21,576 8 85,015 4,366

I'm not sure why you have several 1TB external drives. I assume you only actually need one by one and the rest are for storing videos operating theatre something.

Anyway, you could expend the BlacX and swap between drives easy. Just be for sure to put the unused drive in a proper nonmoving bag then put IT in a box with bubble wrap or standardised offend absorbing material until necessary. I've seen the BlacX along sale recently so check exterior NCIX, Newegg etc to see if in that respect are any sales.

wildwell · Sep 19, 2009 658 0 19,060 50

I mount my aluminium foreign enclosures horizontally in a rack and let a fan from the drugstore blow o'er them.

I'm non sure as shootin why you have several 1TB external drives. I take you only in truth
pauperization one at once and the rest are for storing videos or something.

Yeah, many of today's HD television codecs easily give rise files concluded 1GB/minute.

photonboy · Jun 20, 2006 21,576 8 85,015 4,366

In the coming I'm sure you'll wish to come with a single box equivalent the Western Digital Sharespace:
http://www.westerndigital.com/nut/products/Products.asp?DriveID=584

I'm ready for prices to derive polish happening the 2TB drives and peculiarly the networked storage boxes. I'm willing to ante up to $300 for a networked memory device and $125 per 2TB drive for about $800 total.

I want something that I can access remotely, but mainly it's for sharing DVD/BluRay rips (mine of course) and other video through the electronic network. I support look around for an easy and cheap way to build one using something like the ATOM.

Consdering the fact that I also want a device for each HDTV to actually play the content mayhap I should build a Home Theater PC that too serves every bit my Dwelling Server. In this case, maybe a dual-core ION resolution (the REVO with 330 ION looked interesting spec saucy).

I did the math and my DVD collection (and the, uh, rest of the video) is over 6GB. At about 20 minutes per magnetic disc the prospect of putting all these Videodisc's on my hard drives is another issue...

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