hard drive cooling...

[Cosmic~Fury]

I'm getting a Maxtor 80.0GB 7200RPM 8MB ATA-150 and whether or not I need to, I'm going to apply a cooler. I've seen three types of coolers though and I need to know which kind would be the best...suggestions?

- Lay hard drive on to cooler like a bed

- apply to drive bay and lay into drive bay naturally

- hard drive lays on heatsink like bed as fans create airflow through heatsink...

thanks

 

[ekÆsine]

actually the first gold one you mention screws onto the underside of the hard disk where the circuit board is exposed. i think the first one would be the best and cheaper.

not sure about which model that is but if it is made by vantec or speeze you have a winner. the second and third look pathetic, they would not do much to cool things.

 

[ADZ]

the first 1 looks like a winner. I might look into one of those myself.

 

[ThirtySixBelow]

First One

I got the first one on my maxtor with two 80 mm fan intakes in the front of the case and the HDD is actually cold. Its a very nice product for the money.

 

[SLAYERMAN]

Yeah definetly the first one, i have a simular one goes by the name Q-TEC does exactly what it says on the packaging! thoroughly recommended!!

chris