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I know it's a waste of money, but look at aqua computers new 4drive hardrive waterblock (copper, delrin, stainless steel and 4 aluminum front bays, and see through resevoir)
This is really a piece of art
http://www.frostytech.com/ArticleIma...4/aqua_300.jpg
does it come in black?
how restrictive? very?
looks good!
it does look very nice indeed..however im kinda curious about the performance..looks like the copper plates are on the sides:eek: then on the othe rhand HDD's dont need to be running low temps anyway...
does this work as noise dampener too?
i Like AC's Finish look, the modern metallic look is nice. goes well with the proper theme.
I was just wondering why nobody built a 4 HDD enclosure with watercooling yesterday and poof, AC came to the rescue :rofl:
This would probably cost a lot but in terms of performance, does it really do the job well?
I'd rather have the copper blocks along the top and/or bottom of the HDD, as those seem to be the spots that accumulate heat (plus more surface area).
It looks like it would be pretty restrictive too.
BUT it is awful pretty :)
Now I see something totally different.
No Hard drives, but mount some TEC's to those nice copper plates and turn up the voltage and start cooling the water......
then run it straight to the CPU Mahahahaha
Who sells them I can't seem to find them....
2 words:Quote:
Originally Posted by Xilikon
ADDED HEAT
bah.. im trying this right now. well not this unit, but a 5 tec chillerQuote:
Originally Posted by systemviper
Just make a extra loop, problem solved :rotf:
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Originally Posted by NaeKuh
Is that the Martin work of art waterblock?
erm. hard drives are designed to lose more heat through the sides than the top and bottom.
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Originally Posted by iggy2k
I have always used the dual fan bottom mount hard drive cooler and it keeps the drive nice....
I also used the Aqua Drive from danger den, which this is the big brother and to me there was no noticible heat difference.
Now I think will play with the bottom mount copper and acrilic water coolers that if you flip the drive upside down it looks cool because you can see the coolent and mount some UV LED it, so you get bling and cooling in one unit :ROTF:
But I think the one that Eddie has shown us is very sweet looking, would do the cooling very well and also dampen the noise, so that a 3fer..
Thanks for the info Eddie3DFX
:yepp: there 2 of a kind.Quote:
Originally Posted by systemviper
and higly doubt martin will ever reproduce them.
correct! the top and bottom is insulated! :yepp:Quote:
Originally Posted by iggy2k
You probabaly can get a SSD Drive with that Money. Why bother:shrug:
:rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by QuadSLI
Cuz 4 Raptors price wise < 1 SSD :rofl:
or 4 VelociRaptors ;)
NICE. I wonder how well does it dampen sound. I think it would be really appealing for those looking into dampening HDD sound. That's the only reason I'd get one of these...
I never understand why do we need all these hard disk water blocks. I mean, if you're on a normal SATA, it ain't that hot unless you're talking about dual Raptors in RAID.
But hard drives like heat!
if you cool your hard drives too much it is more prone to failure :(
More info here:
http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf
"Cool" hard drives tend to fail more than "hot" drives...you need to aim for warm :)
If they made this into a NAS where you could have RAID 0/1/5/10 setup then it would be a dream piece of kit. As it stands though its just more overpriced garbage that only dumbasses would buy.
Whoa, that's great pricing considering this fits 4 drives.
Dang I think I want one of these, this is the hot sex right here:
http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/9349/picture1rh0.jpg
http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/6672/picture2cc4.jpg
http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/9817/picture3wj1.jpg
how about 4? :rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by aoch88
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...a/IMG_0885.jpg
But on a serious note, a fan is enough to keep hard drives cool. If your looking at this unit i hope its for silence and cooling. And not just for cooling. Because i heard somewhere that is better to have hard drives run @ 30-40C instead of keeping them super cold all the time.
How do I get one? That store doesn't seem to ship to the US...