Hi Guys, I'm planing a watercooled mini desktop (flex atx) and I was thinking about incorporating a 2,5" notebook Hdd. I cant find any watercooling blocks for those small HDDs so does anybody know if somebody sells them? If not: Do i actually have to cool the hdd? I'll be running a notbook cpu and a not-top-of-the-line GPU. The system will be cooled bei one single 120 rasd+fan and there will be no additional air-cooling in the box.... Thx and Greetz D.R.
These hard drives are usually crammed in close quarters inside a notebook with little or no ventilation. Even a slight breeze over a 2.5" hdd is overkill where cooling is concerned. If you're running a notebook CPU and a low power graphics card, watercooling anything at all is pretty unnecessary. (unless you just want watercooling for the hell of it) With a decent heatsink, you can run the cpu without a fan and passive graphics cards are easy to get hold of so long as you don't need something top spec.
To be honest I'd go with _tad's solution - maybe stick one, silent 120mm fan in there for good measure, but aside from that, a beefy HS should let you cool that CPU passively, and there are plenty of silent/passive graphics card coolers out there.
