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RE: Re: Advice on building a silent PC needed.
- Subject: RE: Re: Advice on building a silent PC needed.
- From: "LeeUKHA" <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 15:03:29 -0000
" As for drives, that's a tough one and it depends on the use of the
machine really but I don't find that drive noise on most of the modern
drives is really an issue. "
It's not noise that's generally the problem - it's heat. The more passive
cooling you put into a HTPC/PC/Server/etc to make it quiet, less movement
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air there is, this can lead a lot of big hard drives temperatures to
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.
In my main server I now have the 160GB HD in a big aluminium cooler that
fit's into a 5.25" bay. It has fans, but they're not connected (far to
noisy), but it does have vents on the front which draw in a little air and
the added aluminium increases the surface area of the drive many fold. Net
result the temp dropped from 42'C-ish down to a steady 30'C.
All with no increase in noise. The cooler was about =A315.
Lee
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