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External Hard Drive

Discussion in 'General Open/Public Discussion' started by Strygun, 9 Mar 2008.


  1. Strygun

    Strygun

    Hey folks,

    I currently have a home-made 300GB hard drive. (By home made, I mean I bought the drive and the casing separately and put them together.)

    The casing has a built-in fan, which is nice because it keeps the drive cool. However, it is rather loud for such a small fan, which makes me keep the drive turned off unless I need it to be on. I would like to have it constantly on, because my Windows Media Center records television quite often. The recordings are rather large in size (a few gigs each), so I would like them to record directly to the external than my internal. This means that I have to have the drive on whenever a scheduled recording is coming up.

    I say all of this to say the following:

    Does an external hard drive really need a fan? Should I buy a new casing that doesn't have one so that the drive will be silent?
     
    Strygun, 9 Mar 2008
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  2. Hamma

    Hamma Commanding Officer Officer

    Officer
    Heat is the enemy of a hard drive hehe, most of the ones you buy at the store pre-built have a small fan in em that are pretty quiet. I wouldn't recommend running one without a fan.
     
    Hamma, 9 Mar 2008
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