Topic: How To Cool A 120g Hdd (Read 36 times)

cadman · « **on:** August 08, 2002, 12:18:00 PM »

Is your xbox closed on a cabinet or something?. If you fit it on a tight space I would place a clip on fan (3 bucks) to make sure you ventilate the area with cool air.
Why is your drive so hot? Is it an old drive?

Drew826 · « **Reply #1 on:** August 08, 2002, 01:38:00 PM »

I've never heard of water cooling a drive, but i suppose it's possible...

Hawk · « **Reply #2 on:** August 08, 2002, 01:48:00 PM »

QUOTE (Drew826 @ Aug 8 2002, 07:38 PM)

I've never heard of water cooling a drive, but i suppose it's possible...

Yeah they exist.

Dark Schneider · « **Reply #3 on:** August 08, 2002, 02:00:00 PM »

Course you can water cool the hard drive, but then where do you put the reservoir and the pump...and the hoses? You're gonna find your system isn't so portable if ya try it,...oh...and another thing..you don't just TRY watercooling for the hell of it! =) You better know exactly what you are doing, and what the consequences are before you begin.

Might as well take your Xbox apart and put it in a mini-atx case of sorts if you plan on super-cooling your xbox inards!

Heh or cut a huge whole in the top of your xbox and mount an Alpha Pal8045 with a screamer on top...put a grill also..might lose a pinky!

Dark Schneider · « **Reply #4 on:** August 08, 2002, 02:01:00 PM »

In all fairness the best thing would be to see if you could fit an aluminum hard drive cooler in the area with the xbox, but then you'd have to splice the power converter to add it. Not a real hard thing to do, just gettting more into the realm of f'ing your xbox up!

public_enema · « **Reply #5 on:** August 08, 2002, 04:03:00 PM »

QUOTE (warbeast @ Aug 8 2002, 05:28 PM)

my 120g hdd gets VERY hot i have been told about a kind of water cool thing u can get any one know anything to do to keep it cool

and i am not moveing to north pole

So what hard drive is this then? - one to avoid.

I bets it a 7200 rpm one innit?

AC Slater · « **Reply #6 on:** August 08, 2002, 05:12:00 PM »

I have an IBM 120 7200rpm drive in my box and it doesn't get very hot at all. It's not the quietest drive available, but it does the job and doesn't overheat. What kind of drive do you have?

Dark Schneider · « **Reply #7 on:** August 08, 2002, 09:13:00 PM »

LOL now you got me thinking about making the Xbox into a hot-swappable raid config...lol...too much time on my hands I think.

cadman · « **Reply #8 on:** August 09, 2002, 09:34:00 AM »

WiKKiD · « **Reply #9 on:** August 09, 2002, 09:54:00 AM »

WiKKiD · « **Reply #10 on:** August 09, 2002, 05:25:00 PM »

IBM sold it's hard drive manufacturing division to Fujitsu, sorry to say...

Reason being the entire GXP series of hard drives, and an extremely large, valid, civil law suit that will probably take a nice chunk of change from IBM...

rzyzzy · « **Reply #11 on:** August 09, 2002, 09:41:00 PM »

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I'm not looking to make anyone paranoid, or scared... But what would be cool is if someone out there has hardware manufacturing connections, a nice lil custom fan setup specifically for the xbox hdd would be a sweet (and i'm quite sure profitable) venture.

http://www.lik-sang....oducts_id=1944

$12.90, 'Nuff said....

Also, If you're worried about the durability of the drives, Buy one in a "retail" box - the "OEM" drives have a shorter warranty... My WD 5400rpm 120 GB was $153 shipped( about $20 more than the lowest price on pricewatch), in a retail box with a 3 year warranty, and it came with an 80 conductor ata-66 cable... Seems to run very cool too.

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