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| Thread ID: 70740 | 2006-07-14 08:38:00 | Aluminium or fan the best for cooling external enclosure ? | Misty (368) | Press F1 |
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| 470763 | 2006-07-14 08:38:00 | If you had to make a choice would an aluminium enclosure keep an external drive cooler than a fan please ? Obviously if you had both it may be better (or maybe not !). On another thread a member pointed me to a particular aluminium enclosure and I contacted the sellers and asked whether it has a fan. I got the reply that no fan with it "but aluminium cools much better than a fan". Also today I was talking to my local PC shop people and was told that fans in external enclosures increase the amount of dust which can get to the enclosed hard drive which is not good for them. What do you think please ? :confused: Misty |
Misty (368) | ||
| 470764 | 2006-07-14 08:45:00 | depends a lot on the case. if the case has good suface aera then a fan is proberly not required. got any links to the products? |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 470765 | 2006-07-14 09:13:00 | It doesn't matter much but if you are really worried about cooling you culd always use a USB to IDE (or USB to sata) adapter instead of an enclosure. | pctek (84) | ||
| 470766 | 2006-07-14 09:29:00 | depends a lot on the case. if the case has good suface aera then a fan is proberly not required. got any links to the products? Hi tweak'e ---here is the link I was given by The_End_Of_Reality www.ascent.co.nz Having said that I looked today at something similar by brand "laser" which is being sold by "Advanced Computers". It is in an aluminium case too, no fan too, and costs $69. Misty :stare: |
Misty (368) | ||
| 470767 | 2006-07-14 09:32:00 | It doesn't matter much but if you are really worried about cooling you culd always use a USB to IDE (or USB to sata) adapter instead of an enclosure. Sorry, pctek - don't really follow -- where does the hard disc sit then !!?? Misty :confused: :horrified: :confused: |
Misty (368) | ||
| 470768 | 2006-07-14 09:50:00 | Hi tweak'e ---here is the link I was given by The_End_Of_Reality www.ascent.co.nz I might just say that the link was the first one I found, and is not necessarily the best, I believe aluminum will be quieter, and no dust will get in. but the fan will extract the hot lingering air, at the expense of a little dust, which is fixable by opening it up and brushing it off. |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 470769 | 2006-07-14 10:04:00 | sorry havn't had a chance to look through them yet. first thing to check..is your hardrive. see if the manafacture supports external encloses or any restrictions on type. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 470770 | 2006-07-14 10:04:00 | An external enclosure will usually give better cooling than just sticking a fan in front of an internal hard drive. | Greven (91) | ||
| 470771 | 2006-07-14 10:19:00 | Have just had an external 3 . 5" USB drive running here for several hours, in an aluminium enclosure . The case is barely warm, it does have a fan but I disconnected that when I fitted the drive, as I don't want the extra noise . In my experience, the HDD does not seem to generate enough heat to cause me concern, but perhaps you are planning on operating it in a very hot environment? My 2 "internal" HDD's are mounted in removeable trays which each have dual fans (also permanently disconnected to reduce the whining noise) and these only get "slightly warm" after a full day, mostly from the PC case temperature I believe . As an external drive is not in the (possibly) hot environment inside the PC case, I can only assume you have a locally very warm environment to worry about the heat in the external enclosure? The aluminium enclosure would act as a heatsink though . |
godfather (25) | ||
| 470772 | 2006-07-14 21:06:00 | Sorry, pctek - don't really follow -- where does the hard disc sit then !!?? Misty :confused: :horrified: :confused: It doesn't. Its out in the world naked. Heres an example picture: www.computerstore.co.nz Although mine is a bit nicer than that and it comes with a power cord too. |
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