Hard Drive Water Cooling

[nil8]

I'm starting work on my third case mod and I was wondering about the options out there for hard drive watercooling. If someone out there could point me in the right direction.

I have no problems with technical specs. I want to cool my hard drives as much as possible with a regular wc setup.

[Frakk]

it would probably take you 5 seconds to search on google. (for me its about 3 with opening a new explorer and typing in google because im very fast )
hint keyword: hard drive water block
go nuts.

[nil8]

That helps a bit, but what I'm looking for is more information on the concepts behind the hard drive cooling systems.

[Zeus]

it would probably take you 5 seconds to search on google. (for me its about 3 with opening a new explorer and typing in google because im very fast )
hint keyword: hard drive water block
go nuts.

see above

[Frakk]

the concept? well, water goes in and comes out cooling the hard drive. there are different designs, some might be two blocks on each side with a tube connecting them like the zalman one, some might be laying on top of it taking the heat away. water doesnt go into the hard drive if thats what you are worried about. i think watercooling a hard drive is a waste of money, space and time. you can cool 2 hard drives with a single 80mm fan.

[MisterChief]

Water cooling HD's seems kinda silly. Unless your HD's spin up very often, they won't generate enough heat to bother anything.

[Zeus]

and if you are really worried about it. You can get the more reasonable alternative of heatpipe based coolers.

[MisterChief]

Hell, even heatpipes seem overkill to me... they are, after all, just hard drives.

[nil8]

Yes, they are just harddrives, 12 15k scsi drives in a raid setup causes enough heat to warrant water cooling.

Heatpipes are out of the question.

I know that water doesn't go into the hd, it's a sealed unit.
What I'm saying is I've seen kits that require you to put a heat transfer plate on the hd before you attach the cooling block.

I've also seen heat transfer balloon systems that are in the block.

I want to know which works better, or if there are more viable and space-saving options. I also want to know how much heat dissapation they have.

[Zeus]

are saying 12 HDDs?