A lot of cases these days have those quick install facilities for Hard Drives. They tend to be of a soft plastic material.
It didn't occur to me until today that the reason why my hard drive array was getting so hot, despite two cooling fans specifically for the HDDs, was due to those soft plastic install devices.
In the old days, HDDs were screwed to the case. This acted as a heat sink. The hard drive doesn't need that much of a heat sink, but if thermally isolated then they can cook despite good cooling.
So I will be ditching the plastic conveniences and going with the old fashion case screw and see if the HDDs run cooler.
Having just lost another SATA out of an array, I am thinking this is a timely discovery, or is it?
Anyone have an opinion on inadvertent thermal isolation of HDDs, or is this a well worn issue that I am discovering somewhat belatedly?
Robert
It didn't occur to me until today that the reason why my hard drive array was getting so hot, despite two cooling fans specifically for the HDDs, was due to those soft plastic install devices.
In the old days, HDDs were screwed to the case. This acted as a heat sink. The hard drive doesn't need that much of a heat sink, but if thermally isolated then they can cook despite good cooling.
So I will be ditching the plastic conveniences and going with the old fashion case screw and see if the HDDs run cooler.
Having just lost another SATA out of an array, I am thinking this is a timely discovery, or is it?
Anyone have an opinion on inadvertent thermal isolation of HDDs, or is this a well worn issue that I am discovering somewhat belatedly?
Robert