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slinga - Aug 11, 2003

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		Curtis		Aug 18, 2003
			Well, I'm a little skeptical as to the value of sandwitching a drive myself. It can't hurt I guess (unless you tighten it up too far), but I can't see any real benefit. I can attest to the worth of suspending a drive though. Instant (and significant) reduction in noise levels for a $0 outlay. You can't do much better than that. Why not sidesink... as well?

		Alexvrb		Aug 19, 2003
			Sidesinks are OK, but most of those cooling methods are overkill, a little air circulation does wonders. If you lack space, get a mounting kit to put a couple in extra 5.25 bays. If its really hot, a 5.25 cooling kit would do the trick. The foam underneath is a better solution than suspending, and has basically the same effect but without taking up as much space and its more stable. It still isn't as secure as screwing it to a drive bay, so I wouldn't do anything like that. Not good for transporting it. I dunno, haven't really had much trouble with either heat or noise.

		Curtis		Aug 19, 2003
			Well my recent discovery of Silentpcreview has left me with an overwhelming desire to shut my PC up. I recently constructed a bottom mounted suspension point for a yet to be purchased drive. Now I only need a better heatsink/fan combo, an ultra quite power supply and a few panaflos at 7V and I'll have something I can sleep in the same room as.

		Alexvrb		Aug 25, 2003
			If you run at stock speeds, there are plenty of cheap+quiet HS/fan combos. If not, umm, distilled water. Yup.

		Curtis		Aug 25, 2003
			Cool. I've got a Zalman 7000A-AlCu on order at the moment - should be about the last thing I need for a while.

		slinga		Aug 25, 2003
			In conclusion software Raid 5 is stupid. And my machine was overheating so I had to take out one of the drives.

		Alexvrb		Aug 26, 2003
			I told you it wasn't worth the trouble. But you could still always pick up a 4-channel RAID card that supports RAID 5, if you've got the cash. A 2-channel would work too, though not optimally. I dunno, seems like a big waste to not do anything with those nice expensive drives. I thought you were going to get another drive mount, assuming you have room in your case? If not you could still mount one of them in a 5.25 bay and possibly add a little more cooling to your case.

		Alexvrb		Sep 8, 2003
			Hmm, this looks a hell of a lot more secure than just stringing up a HDD, while COOLING the HDD, unlike a typical sandwich. Kind of a best of both worlds deal. http://www.bestbyte.net/Product.cfm?Produc...yID=1...

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