Evercool HDAC, Hard Drive Cooler - Well How Well Does It Work?
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In order to test the HDAC, I decided to emulate high-usage conditions by copying approximately 100gb of information to the drive. I removed the drive from the HDAC enclosure and rebooted the box. I then started a copy script which copied the chunk of data. After setting the timer for 15 minutes, I walked away.
After 15 minutes of continuous activity, the hard drive was running at 102 degrees Fahrenheit. Not too bad, but not the best scenario either.
I cancelled the copy and erased all the data before shutting down the computer. I reinstalled the drive into the HDAC and turned the fan speed all the way down to the minimum setting. With this done, I once again booted the box and ran the same copy script. After 15 minutes of copying at approximately 1700 rpm fan speed, the drive was only running at 91 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s a full 11 degrees lower than without the HDAC. This is quite a considerable improvement.
Since the copy script was only 20% complete, I decided to just increase the fan speed and let the copy continue. This would actually put the last test at somewhat of disadvantage, at least in comparison to the other two tests.
After 15 minutes of the fan running at approximately 3450 rpm, the drive was still copying its files but had dropped down another 5 degrees down to 86 degrees Fahrenheit. Overall, the Evercool HDAC dropped the temperature of the hard drive, under heavy usage, by a total of 16 degrees in our tests. I’m sure the numbers would change under different conditions, but I was quite impressed with the results.
Test | Temperature |
Uncooled | 102 F |
1700 RPM | 91 F |
3450 RPM | 86 F |
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