well I have never EVER had a problem with it and industrial PC's all have their hard drives mounted in rubber isolation mounts.
Plus the drives do not get any hotter. it's a moot point. it works well for me and every single Industrial computer on the planet. (they do rubber isolation mounts to protect the hard drives from external vibration.. in fact the rack mount PC case I have here is also that way... rubber mounts for the drive cage. a very small fan running slowly and making almost no noise will cool a hard drive more than the tiny heat contact patch/ poor heat transfer from aluminum to thin steel ever can. If you feel that it's important to you then go with what you believe. I'll stick to what I see industry and high end servers do, and what has worked for over 2 years now. Oh and the thing about the hard drive not being mounted tight makes it slower is just plain funny! -----Original Message----- From: Marcel Kossin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 10:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] newbie with a lot of questions Hello everybody, > reduces HDD noise significantly by decoupling it from the case with rubber > isolation points.. Decoupling a HDD from the case is no good idea, since more than 75% of the HDD heat is emmitted at the side of a HDD. You will either need a further fan to cool it down or the livetime may be reduced significantly. If a HDD is not mounted properly and can move a bit or gets too hot seek time and access is much slower. > This is what they do inside high end DVD players to isolate noise from the > reading mechanisim and the case. doing this to your fans will also make a > huge difference (as well as adding a resistor to drop the voltage to the > fan to around 9-10 volts and slow it down a bit. DVD-Players are not nearly as hot as a HDD under load.. Marcel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
