Mounting them horizontally yeilded temperatures stable at 45 degrees (these are Seagate Baraccuda IVs 40gb).
A couple of articles have suggested that the top and sides of a hard drive generate less heat that the sides of a drive.
I then mounted them sideways, a-la Lian Li. and placed motherboard foam on small on one side only, minimizing the contact points. To balance out the drives I placed 3.5 -> 5.25 converters as a brace between the two drives to give them some stability.
Temperatures with the sideways mounted drives yield 38-41 degrees, the later only being seen on stress activities like divx encoding. (6 Degree Drop
)Well, any advice is appreciated, I'm still looking for a way to secure the drives to the case while still keeping them decoupled (I'm thinking a double silicon gel gasket or maybe a two pipe peice with a screw on section) Also, I don't think it'll be too damaging to the drives to keep them like this, though with Fluid Bearing, I was very suspicious... I checked the Seagate website but it confirmed that sideway mounting was safe. Any words will be appreciated.