On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 11:48, Robin Laing wrote: > Scot L. Harris wrote: > > > > With seven drives you will want to make sure you have adequate cooling > > and select drives that are known to be quite. If you don't have good > > cooling the life span of your drives will be impacted. > > > > > Ah, noise. What a pain. Of course there is heat and .... > > I am looking at Peltier coolers and having the equipment behind a door. > Then I have to deal with the issue of getting the heat from the heat > sinks. > > If they are good enough to be used in auto AC systems (trial), then it > should work in my stereo system. > > http://www.digit-life.com/articles/peltiercoolers/ > > I don't find the noise of a computer that bad but I am older and my ears > are not as good as they used to be. :) That may be what happened to my ears as well. :) I have actually seen some of those Peltier coolers used in a product before. Fairly impressive. Not sure how cost effective they would be for a computer case, and as you mentioned you need to cool down the heat sinks. I initially had some heat problems with the system I mentioned before, not enough air flow around it in the cabinet. So make sure you have some kind of airflow through the cabinet and watch how much other electronic equipment you have stacked above and below the system.
