Found some Thermalright@Computex 2008 pics

ash2459 · Post by **ash2459** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 5:26 am

- 56K warning!

http://www.pcdvd.com.tw/showthread.php? ... 1081007492

No AXP-140 pics though...

Alan Hsu

Post by **NeilBlanchard** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 7:59 am

Hi,

Here's a cooler for the Velociraptor:

http://pic.xfastest.com/fsaa3dfx/Comput ... ht/014.jpg

...but the fins all seem to be perpendicular to the ideal orientation.

FartingBob · Post by **FartingBob** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 9:39 am

That Raptor cooler looks major overkill. The Velociraptor runs pretty cool anyway since its smaller than normal drives, and the cooler that comes with it provides perfectly adequate cooling, unless your using it in a passive system (why?) or ambient temps of 50c are standard in your part of the world.

If they wanted to really cool it well they'd have a top plate as well, since thats where most of the heat will come off the drive.
And i expect that this all metal hard mounted design wont be fantastic for noise.

Aris · Post by **Aris** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:28 am

FartingBob wrote: If they wanted to really cool it well they'd have a top plate as well, since thats where most of the heat will come off the drive.

Actually, the majority of heat from hard drives is emitted along the sides, not the top.

Felger Carbon · Post by **Felger Carbon** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:47 am

Aris wrote:Actually, the majority of heat from hard drives is emitted along the sides, not the top.

That's certainly true for conventionally mounted HDDs, which use the aluminum HDD mounting rack as a defacto heat sink. For those few people (more of them here at SPCR) who suspend their hard drives, most of the heat dissipation comes from the bottom of the drive via spot cooling.

Plekto · Post by **Plekto** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 3:24 pm

Wow. We'll need titanium reinforced motherboards at this rate...

ash2459 · Post by **ash2459** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 6:45 am

A TR engineer at Computex 2008 told me that the HD cooler will work with other 2.5" HDs too - if they decide to actually put it into production! The cooler felt remarkably solid as I couldn't cause the fins to rattle.

Alan Hsu

FartingBob · Post by **FartingBob** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 7:21 am

ash2459 wrote:The cooler felt remarkably solid as I couldn't cause the fins to rattle.

Some might say 6 heatpipes for a 2.5" drive cooler is beyond excessive.

ash2459 · Post by **ash2459** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 10:25 pm

FartingBob wrote:
ash2459 wrote:The cooler felt remarkably solid as I couldn't cause the fins to rattle.
Some might say 6 heatpipes for a 2.5" drive cooler is beyond excessive.

But does not make the cooler less desirable...

Alan Hsu