Hard Drive Cooling
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TO THOSE WITH Hard drive knowledge 10000 rpm liquid cooled?
Can I add a 10,000 rpm hard drive to my liquid cooled system without a heat problem. I'd like to add another hard drive. I sometimes use the digital video recorder function of windows media home so I was thinking a faster hard drive would be good. I also would not mind backing up my files. Does one of those external drives back up your operating system or just system folders? I would like any knowledge about the topic that you can impart. Thanks
If your going to add a fast hard-drive, and your concerned about the heat dissipation, you should probably check if your case is well ventilated.
You should probably have at least 1 fan thats dedicated to pumping air through the case. If you feel uncomfortable, you can add more fans. 2 Fans wouldn't be a bad idea.
Water-cooling will keep your CPU, and maybe your graphics card cool, but you still want to keep a low ambient temperature in the case. Otherwise your hardware, epically your hard-drives, will have a shorter then normal life.
I suppose a simple way of checking if your case is cool enough, is to hold your hand over the vent from your PSU. If that feels warm, you could do with better cooling
Another alternative instead of buying a single fast hard-drive, is to buy 2 normal hard-drives, and make them work together as a pair. As i speak, i've got a "raid 0", consisting of 2 120gig drives combined to give me 1 single 240gig drive according to windows.
You'll probably find that a raid-0 on 2 standard 7200rpm drives will have a lot more throughput then a 10000rpm drive.
The best advantage on 10000 rpm drives, are their responsiveness. There is however a tradeoff, the faster the drive spins, the shorter the life on average. Then again, with raid-0, if either drive dies, you loose all your data.
There are raid systems with redundant back-up built in, but you need at least 3 for such systems.
Anyway, for a more complete backup system, raid is something you should look into. Something simple, then yes, a single will also work, but not as well.
You mention backup, but you've used terms in weird ways, so i'll just cover a few points.
1. Your not going to be able to back up your operating system, like "windows". You'd need special software to do that, and you could only do it, when your not running windows.
When windows is running, it locks some files, making them unable to be copied.
2. System folders are critial to the system, and usaly have files in use, thus unable to be copied. Same as above, you probably won't be able to copy it compleaty. And even if you could, without windows being backed up, it would be pointless.
3. You might of been talking about personal files ,like "My Documents" or other personal places, those can be freely backed up.
4. You mention external hard-drive. Those are completely different to internal hard-drives. External drives usually sit inside their own box, outside of the computer, and plug into a USB port. They aren't as fast or responsive as an internal hard-drive. But you wouldn't need to worry about cooling either.
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