Drives are another issue - the case fans won't address them. In the past I've used drive mounts that had grills and fans built in to pull air from front over the drive. However when you get three SCSI drives that still doesn't work well. For system with a large number of drives I go to a server cabinet that is designed for the load - it's got the fans and good cooling paths.
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 08:06:48 -0700 (PDT) Stephen Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't leave the whole front panel off, just the blank in front of the
disk that I want to cool. A front fan would push air in and would to
work against what the fans in the rear are trying to do, create a
partial vacuum in the case. The fans in the back of the case still move
the same amount of air out, but the fan in the front doesn't really do
any good and works against the partial vacuum so less air actually goes
over the drives in the manner that I described. I suppose a fan in
front would help direct air to the motherboard and cards, if that was
where your cooling problem was. But I never have anything there that
needs that much cooling. The video card GPU and northbridge have fans,
if they need one. So there's no particular reason to direct air to
them, just get the heat out of the case, which the rear fans do. That's
my reasoning, anyway.
Steve Rose
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:By leaving off the front panel you essentially do what a front fan does - push/pull air through from the front of the case. With a front fan you put some pressure behind it to help it move through the case.
The idea is the front fan pushes air into the box while the power supply fan and/or back fan pull it out. You want to keep the air moving through the case, across the boards, etc and keep it's velocity up.
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