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NickG:

Thanks for the links and silicon idea, folks.  I may rig something up with some soft silicon tubing and see how it fares.  I am not worried about conductive heat transfer yet because I think that cool moving air may provide enough heat dissipation if I build this smartly.  hmm...  I may use silicon tubing, maybe I should have some cool water running through it...

patrickl:

Another suggestion I saw was to put the drive on soft foam on the bottom of the case. That might be easier for Minwah to do.

If the drive starts running hot after decoupling it (lets say over 45C or something), screwing lengths of aluminum U-channel on the sides of the drive seems to help a lot.

There is a whole thread on silentpcreview about HDD Elastic Suspension with lots of DIY solutions and pictures. Many of these decoupling methods look pretty dangerous for when you move the case/cabinet. Some people just hang their drives on some bungee cord. Or like the foam thread where they simply stand it on some foam. I'd really want my drives to be stuck firmly in their position. I guess I'd personally just pay for the Novibes drive cage.

There are some cool ghetto suggestions though:
- The bubble wrap mount
- Suspended in shipping materials
- Disks in a box

Xiaou2:

 Funny how you are telling me I dont read and understand.  Yet at the same moment,
I never made one threat.   Anyone could see that.    I was responding to what I thought
was a threat aimed at me.     I didnt make a threat... I made a Promise.   A promise that
anyone who dares to come and hunt me down will be damaged severely.   Its called
self defense Idiot.

 Clearly "Dont make me come down there"  can be interpreted in many ways.    In the
heat of the moment, one can sometimes lose their better judgment.

 You and others also Twisted my words to mean other things on purpose.


 They said: " They *somehow* kept their 200  plus machines one step ahead of such break downs."

 My reply:

  "Thats Either that is a Lie, or a mis-interpretation... or something else..."

 
 And on top of that all,  he wasnt even making the correct arguement.   As I had stated,
that the reasons pinball fails is due to something on a machines that is broken.   He
made the argument that  Ops found it easy to keep games from going completely down... where
as I was making the argument that ops could not maintain several pins 100% from all failures,
within a good given time period.   That when dealing with several pins on location,  you will
get at least one failure of Something during a week of time.  (if not many failures in a week)

 Maintaining several pins on busy location spots is not easy, and is too extensive to keep
them working 100% all the time... which equates to frustereated players who decided not
to put their money into the things anymore cause they are tired of an getting a game
that does not work as its supposed to.


 Twist my words again Chefo- Idioto.


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 As for a HD cage...   you could actually make a simple version using metal strips. 

 Get 4 strips of metal. (or 2 long strips)  Drill a hole in each strip on both ends.  One end will be used
to mount to the  drive. 

 The other end,  attach keyrings or similar - which you can attach bungee or other
tube/belts..etc. to.


 As for Heat dissipation on HD's thru the case..  that actually almost non-existent.   Most
the heat seems to eminate from the top of the drive.   The side is very cool comparatively.   

 A fan will provide like 95% more dissapation than the probably 5% disapation that the case
would supposedly provide.   Cases are very poor heat sinks.  They arnt desiged to be.
The are thin metal merely for cost, and grounding.


  Which does bring a good point.   When suspending a HD.  make sure to attach a loose grounding
wire from one of the HDs screws to a place on the case... or tie it into something that grounds.
That way static will not buildup and cause damages to the drive.


patrickl:


--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on May 18, 2008, 03:59:48 pm ---In the heat of the moment, one can sometimes lose their better judgment.
--- End quote ---
and then there are some who don't have it to begin with  :angel:

Xiaou2:


 I guess twisting someones words also equates to better judgment?

 Your far from one to talk about judgments or intelligence.




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