Hard Drive cooling

[Wonderwill]

Hey I just read that Tom's article on the hard drive cooler. I left it wondering: Why on earth would I spend extra money to cool my HD with 2 40mm fans? Something was wrong with those temps because I have 2 hds in my Centurion 5 that never go over 35*C under load. I actually love the cooling in my case because one hd is on top and one on the bottom with air running straight through the middle and on top. Why not just buy a large fan and mount it near the HDs?

 

[Cam8755]

I was wondering why also. Especially reading this from TGDaily:

"Google's temperature research found an equally surprising result: "Failures do not increase when the average temperature increases. In fact, there is a clear trend showing that lower temperatures are associated with higher failure rates. Only at very high temperatures is there a slight reversal of this trend," the authors of the study found."

http://www.tgdaily.com/2007/02/16/google_hard_drives/

 

[gm0n3y]

Wow, I've never heard that. Interesting...

 

[Synthetickiller]

Guess I won't bother even worrying about cooling my HDDs anymore.

 

[billdcat4]

I would research that "fact" a little more before calling it truth.

 

[Cam8755]

Anybody interested in further research can read the report here.
http://216.239.37.132/papers/disk_failures.pdf

I might not go so far to call it fact, but the data comes from quite an extensive database.

Does anybody else think there is some conflict in Tom’s giving such a positive review on a device that cools hard drives with in a month of posting an article that discusses how extra cooling may not be necessary for hard drives?

 

[billdcat4]

I agree, I dont think that TomsHardware is unbiased.

I trust Anandtech much more.