Will be using SCSI drives by the end of the year after finishing my VLSI masters. Ive found harddrive coolers from inovateck this one attach's underneath the harddrive and cools the bottom. My problem is what about the aqua drive which cools from the side is and is insulated in a casinf which obviously reduces noise. Is the auqa drive suitable with SCSI drives, eg MAXTOR ATLAS 4 (10-15W) 10000-15000 rpm?

I need a compromise of cooling and noise reduction, what material does the aquadrive use top and bottom. Does this conduct heat well, how is it with noise, what kind of temperatures can you get in an existing watercooling setup using a 320 radiator and eheim 1250 pump together will a DUAL processer (100W each) and a 50W graphics card.

Thanks.

this is for a machine i dont have yet, probably near christmass time.

Case will be supermicro 4u still deciding but it will have 90mm + 120mm fans so airflow will be very good will minimal noise.
I wasnt asking questions about other manufacturers. The other cooler cools from bellow where the motor and drive electronic/pcb are. You are saying that cooling from the side will be better. I will be using 10k rpm, the 15k are much more noiser, pricier and have lower capacity. The material used in the aquadrive underneath and above is that insulating the heat or is it some kind of thermaly conductive compound.

What kind of temp using 10k SCSI drive, average temps?
What about the noise reductuction with and without aqua drive.

Thanks

I figured out that the power needed to be dissipated would be around maximum 250-300W assumming DUAL CPUS (Available Opterons at end of year) , 50-70W graphics card (geforce 5 ultra ) , chipset, 4 SCSI drives. The 320 radiator should be fine or I can combine more of them 2 maybe.