This is gorgeous aqua pcs new 4-hardrive waterblock

[Eddie3dfx]

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

[disruptfam]

does it come in black?

how restrictive? very?

looks good!

[Giannis86]

it does look very nice indeed..however im kinda curious about the performance..looks like the copper plates are on the sides then on the othe rhand HDD's dont need to be running low temps anyway...

does this work as noise dampener too?

[septim]

i Like AC's Finish look, the modern metallic look is nice. goes well with the proper theme.

[Xilikon]

I was just wondering why nobody built a 4 HDD enclosure with watercooling yesterday and poof, AC came to the rescue

[aoch88]

This would probably cost a lot but in terms of performance, does it really do the job well?

[Soulwind]

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

[systemviper]

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....

[NaeKuh]

I was just wondering why nobody built a 4 HDD enclosure with watercooling yesterday and poof, AC came to the rescue

2 words:

ADDED HEAT

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....

bah.. im trying this right now. well not this unit, but a 5 tec chiller

[Xilikon]

Just make a extra loop, problem solved

[systemviper]

2 words:

ADDED HEAT



bah.. im trying this right now. well not this unit, but a 5 tec chiller

Is that the Martin work of art waterblock?

[iggy2k]

erm. hard drives are designed to lose more heat through the sides than the top and bottom.

[systemviper]

erm. hard drives are designed to lose more heat through the sides than the top and bottom.

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

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

[NaeKuh]

Is that the Martin work of art waterblock?

there 2 of a kind.

and higly doubt martin will ever reproduce them.

erm. hard drives are designed to lose more heat through the sides than the top and bottom.

correct! the top and bottom is insulated!

[QuadSLI]

You probabaly can get a SSD Drive with that Money. Why bother

[NaeKuh]

You probabaly can get a SSD Drive with that Money. Why bother

Cuz 4 Raptors price wise < 1 SSD

[Xilikon]

or 4 VelociRaptors

[migueld]

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...

[aoch88]

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.

[rogard]

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

[Pudi]

129 Euro

http://www.caseking.de/shop/catalog/...se::10400.html

[Scubar]

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.

[migueld]

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:

[NaeKuh]

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.

how about 4?



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.

[migueld]

How do I get one? That store doesn't seem to ship to the US...