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Saturday, September 04 2010 @ 06:11 AM EST
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Drive bay fan mod

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 I was having some worrying cooling problems with my server at home.  The hard drives running around 60C, CPU and Case temps not that far behind.  Summer is ramping up here in Oz and I thought I should go and make some case mods to try and cool things down a little.  Here's the first problem; the machine has 2 SATA2 500GB 7200RPM drives, 4GB (2x2GB) 1066MHz RAM, a Quad Core Phenom (9650) running at 2.3GHz....and it's all jammed into a slim desktop case mounted vertically under a desk!  What in the name of all things good can I do?  Then I remembered the 5.25" drive bay with nothing in it.  Bliss.

The next problem was sourcing a BLACK cooler/fan module for it.  Found one on eBay but the colour (according to the seller) is "random"...WTF?  So screw that idea.  Off to Jaycar for a trio of 40mm fans, scavenge an old removable drive caddy (to be sacrificed to the jigsaw).  Add a soldering iron and a little elbow grease and VOILA!

Okay, it's ugly...but I can make it pretty with some anodised stainless steel or aluminium to match the case...so shaddup ok!  Now all this ugliness would be of no use unless the precious internals were now hanging with the cool kids right?  I offer you the pudding...containing the proof:

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Forgot to mention - the removable drive caddy was beige.  Enter the black "Sharpie" and the thing is now more black than beige...still pretty dodgey though :P 

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