Monday, November 23rd 2009
Evercool Intros Armor Hard Drive Cooler
PC cooling products specialist Evercool introduced its Armor case-mounted HDD cooler. The cooler acts as a drive-cage, converting 5.25" drive bays into 3.5" bays, and directs air onto three 3.5" hard drives, while occupying two 5.25" bays. It comes with a metal front bezel with perforated metal for the intake. Bezel colors include black and silver. Internally, the drive cage is made entirely of steel. Air is blown onto the drives by a 2 ball-bearing 80mm fan running at 1200 RPM. The perforated front air intake is detachable without dissembling the cage, it lets you clean the dust-filter and the fan. Its pricing and availability are not known.
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VR-Zone
20 Comments on Evercool Intros Armor Hard Drive Cooler
However, if you have many harddrives so close together, some airflow is good, because it gets very hot very quickly. And in this thing, the gap is so narrow, that 80mm fan will only have a marginal cooling effect.
1200 RPM
unnecessarily high RPM
The fronts pretty much the same with same ideas how the filter fit on it and i took the whole front part of mine so i could just use the cases filters.
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856999209&cm_re=istar-_-56-999-209-_-ProductThen it would have to take 3 5 1/4 bays ;).
Looks realy funny in 2009, all hdds on IDE.
hard drives only produce 5-15W of heat, so they only need minimal cooling
lol to IBM deathstars... I've got a hitachi one around here and its terrible (slow, noisy, hot)
edit: actually they're very honest, the name of the last Jpeg gives away the temps of those deathstars :D
I have the 2 standard hard drive caddys which come with my Antec 902 - they are both 120mm & have a RPM controller which I can use to crank up the fan but it gets noisey as hell so i just leave it on the lowest setting. which is around 800rpm i think, Ive no idea what it is
But I do perfer like my Lian-Li EX-H34B. 3.5" x 4 in 5.25" x 3 with a rear 120mm fan. There's nearly a 1/4" between the drives, and the rear fan doubles as my CPU/RAM cooler.