Do note that the google paper says
From my own experience, a 120mm or 80mm intake fan right in front of your HDDs lowers temperature by 10-15C. This is the difference between #!@¤#2€ hot and "comfortably warm", but not "cold to the touch", which might very well not be a good operating condition - I know next to nothing about the materials used inside HDDs, but I've noticed the fluid dynamic bearings word often. Perhaps that fluid part doesn't want to be too cold or too hot?
Anyway, after I started using intake fans to cool drives, I've had almost no drive crashes. This could be a coincidence, of course, drives could have randomly gotten that much better right about the time I started...
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drives that are cooled excessively actually fail more often than those running a little hot
From my own experience, a 120mm or 80mm intake fan right in front of your HDDs lowers temperature by 10-15C. This is the difference between #!@¤#2€ hot and "comfortably warm", but not "cold to the touch", which might very well not be a good operating condition - I know next to nothing about the materials used inside HDDs, but I've noticed the fluid dynamic bearings word often. Perhaps that fluid part doesn't want to be too cold or too hot?
Anyway, after I started using intake fans to cool drives, I've had almost no drive crashes. This could be a coincidence, of course, drives could have randomly gotten that much better right about the time I started...




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