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05-28-2006, 02:40 PM
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| USB Drive Fan Overkill After a couple of months of fighting with an overheated 300g IDE drive in a cheapo USB enclosure, I figured I'd either farkle up a fan or chuck the enclosure.... Since the enclosure is pretty much useless I decided to butcher it.... Here's the pile of parts I started with.. 
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05-28-2006, 02:41 PM
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| There's no turning back now! 
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05-28-2006, 02:43 PM
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| Now we have an intake hole and an exhaust hole......It is begining to look like overkill! 
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05-28-2006, 02:46 PM
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| We also wind up with a couple of neato Ninja throwing disks (note to self....do NOT let the kids see these!) 
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05-28-2006, 02:49 PM
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| Presto!! It's ugly, but it's absolutely cold to the touch... I've left the end off until I get some rubber feet for the bottom so the air can exit down.... The other benifit of this, is I can tell when the drive is on (the little blue LED is about the most useless indicator I've ever seen.... 
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05-28-2006, 02:52 PM
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| Here's another finished pic.. 
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05-28-2006, 03:26 PM
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| Looks good, should stay cool now.
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05-28-2006, 04:22 PM
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| Looks good, i think my Vantec Nexstar3 needs the same treatment, it gets really hot with no airflow and a 7200RPM drive!
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05-28-2006, 05:24 PM
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| OK, I just got back from Home Depot with some rubber feet....I put the end-cap back on and I feel good airflow coming out the bottom...WOOOOT  
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05-28-2006, 05:26 PM
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| I think they missed the boat on these, nice aluminum case, but they didn't mount the drive solidly to the metal allowing the case to work as a big heat sink...Instead the drive is mounted to the PCB board....Silly ..
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05-28-2006, 05:37 PM
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| Very cool 
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05-28-2006, 10:36 PM
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| Sweet. Now I am getting the itch to mod something. 
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05-28-2006, 10:53 PM
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| same here, but for me its putting a 120mm fan in the side of my HP. I want to get a hole saw, but its $30 for a one time use thing, not worth it.
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