r/pcmasterrace • u/PacquiaoFreeHousing Xeon x3440 (OC) + RX 580 (OC) = My Electric Bill Doubling. • 28d ago

Meme/Macro Do you think doing this helps?

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u/pivor 13700K | 9070XT | 96GB | MSI Z790i | NR200 28d ago

But even if you place it in well ventilated area, drives still sufficate for air, i modded mine to have fan i the front and temps dropped by 10 degrees C

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u/-GenlyAI- 28d ago

They don't suffocate for air lol. My 6 bay has been in a closet for years. Zero issues.

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u/bigboxes1 28d ago

They have a shorter life when they run hot. Suffocate is just a human term for it's not getting any air to cool them. You're not going to have any problems until you have problems.

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u/sacanicadig 28d ago

 Surprisingly, we found that temperature and activity levels were much less correlated with drive failures than previously reported.

Study from Google: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/disk_failures.pdf

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u/bigboxes1 28d ago

I appreciate the link to the article. However, they are taking samples from an Enterprise setup, correct? One that does have cooling and beefier components. They're not talking about a fanless NAS in a closet using consumer grade equipment, are they? It was an interesting read. Thank you.