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The two 40mm fans are powered by a regular 4-pin molex power connector. Simple enough!
Now, lets do a little bit of modification.
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The face plate is now painted to match my case, and I think it turned out really nice. It looks much better that it did when it was white.
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Now the hard drive cooler is fully assembled and ready for it's new home in my server case. I decided to house my 20GB Maxtor backup drive in it, and now all my other hard drives are going to be jealous! I might have to get a few more of these to keep everyone happy...
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Installation complete! After the paint job, this is one nice looking hard drive cooler. Installation was a breeze, and the fit was perfect. Now, on to the performance numbers...
I will let the numbers speak for themselves. This is a very impressive drop in temperature, and could prolong the life of the hard drive and improve performance a little, but probably not enough to be noticable.
Conclusion.
As I mentioned before, this is the only hard drive cooler I have seen that actually worked to lower drive temps. Fan-only solutions simply don't work because they cant dissipate enough heat off of the flat surface of the drive. I couldn't find a single thing about the hdd_HO that I didn't like except for the color, but white or beige is pretty much standard, so it won't count against the rating at all.
Rating:
This is a high quality cooler that was thoughtfully designed, and works better than any cooler I have encountered. PCExtreme gives 1CoolPC's hdd_HO the highest rating possible: 5X's!
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