Fear and Loathing on the Learning Curve: Observations on Life, Tech and Web Design from a Slightly Misanthropic Mind

Hard Drive Cooling for 10¢ (~5p)

Have prob­lem with inef­fi­cient fan cool­ing for hard drives? No? Well read on any­way. A Slashdot art­icle appeared earlier in the week detail­ing a novel method of hard drive cool­ing for only 10¢ per drive (about 5p).

Instead of using case fans to blow air across the drives, the author uses a stand­ard right-angle bracket to mount a stand­ard 80mm fan to blow air straight at the under­side of the drive, appar­ently achiev­ing 10°-15° drops in tem­per­at­ure. Tricky in tight cases, but a handy trick nonetheless.