Can you configrure any fan to blow air toward disk drives?
210836
There are two 80mm fan mounts for the bottom half of the case. They are intended to exhaust air, but you could turn the fans around and draw air in. The fans would point straight at one of the drive bays.
210837
There are two small fans (80mm) on the lower back part of the case that can be configured to blow air to or from the hard disk trays. In my setup I have installed two Noctuas NF-R8 redux-1200 and all my 4 HD's runs cool and quiet.
210838
Not really no. You could buy a 2x5.25 hotswap setup that has fans that blow on its drives. I double sided tapped a fan on the hot-swap chassis. I will probably end up modding the hot-swap chassis to accomidate an 80mm fan. Without fans my hot-swap drives where running 37 and 40 degrees Celsius.The drive in the back of the case was running at 31 degrees it has an 80mm blowing air away from it. There are 2 80mm fan mounts in the back designed to blow out. You could have them blow in but it probably wouldn't work as well.
1669408
Not significantly. If you are looking for a quiet solution and are somewhat electrically savvy, try wiring two fans in series and ditch the speed controller. I found this configuration was much quieter (practically silent!) than using the fans on the low setting of the speed controller, and still moved a surprising amount of air. The speed controller is not a very "elegant" design, and causes the fans to emit a buzzing or humming noise at low speed.
190495
I have two of the double fans (total of four fans) mounted at the top of a closed closet (3ft wide, 7 ft tall) which houses our computer servers and security system hardware. I reversed the mounting on the fans so they are exhaust, blowing the air out of the closet. There is about a 1 to 1 1/2 inch gap at the bottom of the doors where air can be drawn in. The idea is hot air rises and is exhausted while cooler air is pulled in at the bottom. This seems to be working quite well over the past month or so since the install.
95408
Sorry for the late reply. There isn't any space for a case fan. This thing is tiny :).
1940225
Hello there..It is always preferable to put rear fans blowing out. But be sure you are creating a single air flow direction. You may not need intake fans and create enough negative air pressure within the case that air will enter through any other openings, but it's also preferable to put filtered intake fans with more capacity than the outlet fans so you always keep the dust where it should be and a fresh computer case.
1423190
Neither, no air is drawn from or pushed outside of the case, this guy just pulls air thought the fans forcing air on a GPU or similar or card. It does work but it is not the most quiet.
1311583
You could but there's no need. One centrifugal fan should be enough for a passive intake/negative pressure setup.
398254
There is only one way to have air flow... In from the front, out through the top.The sad part is no matter how to aim the fans, once they are not static pressure fans and you dont tape the 3 large rectangle holes under the lid cover, the fans will be circulating the hot air inside since air flow is restricted horribly.
1278961
no you can not no fan controller does that you have to physically remove your fan and turn it around to get it to blow air in a different direction
1824515
Yes. I use 3 of them as exhaust fans. I believe that the fans blow air in the direction of the label on the front, but all you'll have to do is see which way they blow and screw them in in that direction
419952
It couldn't hurt. But there is so much air coming from the two existing fans. That air is being circulated under your whole laptop so the effort, if easy enough, to move a fan is fine but may not be needed. This device pushes ALOT of air.
125644
No. Either have both fans on or off, or have one taking in air and one exhausting air.
2187149
This fan is not set up for computer cases, but rather for an entertainment center. It has a USB plug for external power and is designed to be placed on a stereo receiver or a satellite/uverse box to push the hot air away from the components and hard drives. It has rubber feet to isolate it from transmitting vibrations. There are other fans designed for cooling inside a computer case with the proper power plugs.
456195
I wouldn't set it on its side, the fan needs ventilation to cool down and the cd/DVDs drive isn't intended to load sideways. That being said there are CPUs like all in ones that sit that way. Personally I wouldn't do it.
1984503
This fan is designed to move a lot of air into an entire room. It's about 100 times more than you need. Use PC fans instead. They're designed to ventilate desk-top computer cabinets. Two or three will do the trick, use less electricity, and make less noise. Just type "pc fan" in the Amazon search bar.
724535
No, fan. My drive sounds like a fan is inside. Just the high rpm. The drive enclosure look to provided satisfactory cooling. I have it hooked to a X1 and it goes to sleep when the X1 does.
327958
Probably, but it's hard to say for sure. The Thermaltake mount fits two 2.5" drives, so if you mount your drive on top you should be able to squeeze a fan underneath. But I have to ask, why do you want a fan under an SSD? They don't get nearly as hot as a normal rotational drive so a fan might be overkill.