Water Cooled HDD

H20 HDD?

  • Yes

    Votes: 8 33.3%

  • No

    Votes: 16 66.7%
  • Total voters
    24
  • Poll closed .
spanky

spanky

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When putting together a water cooled system do you think it would be worth it to do it to the HDD's as well?
 
Absolutely. Heat will kill a HDD in a hell of a hurry. Any cooling you can get to it should, theoretically, lengthen the life of the drive and improve reliability.
 
why do people like water cooling so much, water and computers are not good bed fellows, my boss had a pentium D which he over clocked to 4.0Ghz and then fried because his water pump went out. Personally i'll stick with big heat sinks and big fans, no water for me thanks...
 
yes and no

yes if you have a 10,000/15,000RPM drive or if you drives are really hot

no if you have 7200RPM drive unless they run hot

What pump are you going with??? Is it the one I suggested??? are you going with the case I told you about???
 
SirKenin said:
Absolutely. Heat will kill a HDD in a hell of a hurry. Any cooling you can get to it should, theoretically, lengthen the life of the drive and improve reliability.
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As long as you have decent air cooling, and it stays under 40C, then you dont need to cool it with a liquid.
 
Right now my hard drives are at 29C and 27C. I do have them right behind a 120mm intake fan, though.
 
dont mess with the pressures of the water... unless you've got quite a hardy water pump i suggest you dont bother... better to let the hard drive run at temperatures it was designed to than let everything run at temps it wasn't designed too.

plus, that adds heat before the water gets to the cpu. the colder it is before the cpu the colder the cpu stays.
 
Heya

I have found those special HDD coolers that sit on the bottom of the HDD most effective. It keeps my HDD at 23 Celsius under normal use. That's good enough and does not make almost any noise at all.

JAN :D
 
The_Beast said:
yes and no

yes if you have a 10,000/15,000RPM drive or if you drives are really hot

no if you have 7200RPM drive unless they run hot

What pump are you going with??? Is it the one I suggested??? are you going with the case I told you about???
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I'm going to sacrifice HDD speed for space so any HDD will be 7200. I am going with that pump you suggested. I did really like the TT Shark but that big opening on the side bothered me and I found this case instead. I get one more 5.25 bay and one more expansion slot with no huge opening for dust. Plus I don't really like being able to see into the PC with lights and crap.

fade2green514 said:
dont mess with the pressures of the water... unless you've got quite a hardy water pump i suggest you dont bother... better to let the hard drive run at temperatures it was designed to than let everything run at temps it wasn't designed too.

plus, that adds heat before the water gets to the cpu. the colder it is before the cpu the colder the cpu stays.
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I'm not worried about pressures or much about the temp of the water reaching the CPU. HDD cooler i was looking at has 1/2 fittings which is the size of the water system, so that's not a problem. As far as temp goings, I'm going to try to shove 2 radiators into the case so we'll see. I don't know if you know much about Hydraulics but all pumps create flow not pressure. Restrictions create pressure and pressure is directly related to heat IE if pressure goes up (like 1/4'' fittings) so does heat--hence 1/2'' fittings. That's your lesson for the day lol

jancz3rt said:
I have found those special HDD coolers that sit on the bottom of the HDD most effective. It keeps my HDD at 23 Celsius under normal use. That's good enough and does not make almost any noise at all.

JAN :D
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Like this? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835119010
 
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Ive got a AWSOME IDEA Get a Pedistle Fan, Open up case, Boom the pedistle fan into the box AND SAVE URSELF COUPLE Hundred $$$$$$
 
theresthatguy said:
I don't know if you know much about Hydraulics but all pumps create flow not pressure.
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Pumps create a pressure difference which creates a flow, just as a battery creates a voltage difference which causes a current to flow.

theresthatguy said:
Restrictions create pressure and pressure is directly related to heat IE if pressure goes up (like 1/4'' fittings) so does heat--hence 1/2'' fittings. That's your lesson for the day lol
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Restrictions create pressure loss, known as head loss or pressure head, just like a resistor in a circuit. Also, water is generally considered incompressible - you would have to raise the pressure from ambient to about 10 atmospheres to get a 0.02 degree celsius temperature rise (in the case of an adiabatic system).
 
Yeti said:
Pumps create a pressure difference which creates a flow, just as a battery creates a voltage difference which causes a current to flow.

Restrictions create pressure loss, known as head loss or pressure head, just like a resistor in a circuit. Also, water is generally considered incompressible - you would have to raise the pressure from ambient to about 10 atmospheres to get a 0.02 degree celsius temperature rise (in the case of an adiabatic system).
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You're getting overly technical now.

Restrictions create pressure loss? So if I shove more water into a smaller tube pressures would go down? Don't sound right at all. Flow would decrease. Head Loss is actually the measure of reduction of in the total head of fluid as it moves through the system (sum of elevation head, velocity head, and pressure head = total head).
 
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i use 4x 90mm fans to cool my 6 raptors. dont really need water to cool those can't really tell the temp when they're raided. but the last time when i got my first one it was at 35c constantly idle or full power.
 
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