Vigor Gaming is known for providing custom built gaming systems, but they also have cooling components. Today, we are looking at Vigor’s newest hard drive cooler, the iSurf II. The iSurf II is a 5.25” bay active cooler for your 3.5” hard drive and is designed to reduce your hard drive temperature while increasing hard disk drive performance. Join us as we see how the iSurf does on our test bench.
Quote: "The iSurf II from Vigor has an MSRP of $29.99 and a quick search on our shopping link shows that it can be found for less. For that price you get a solid attractive piece of hardware. Despite having two 40mm fans, it is rather quiet. Even with the test system sitting on top of the bench and the iSurf II at the same level as my head it was not noticeable over the rest of the system..."
Its like anything else in a PC the cooler you can make it run the longer it will last. Drives with no cooling don't last near as long as drives with out it.
You might be surprised how warm you drive can get when writing large amounts of data to the drive.
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
-Thomas Jefferson
So I guess it goes back to the question of how long do you want to keep it.
Like overclocking, anyone who serious about it will probably have new hardware in a year anyways, which will be shorter than the life span of the hardware.
Page 6 (fig 5) shows that the drives have less chance of failing at 35-40oC than any other temperature range!
(Of course these were in an 'always on' state and the flux of warming up/cooling down (from powering up/down) is likely to influence those figures).
Page 6 (fig 5) shows that the drives have less chance of failing at 35-40oC than any other temperature range!
(Of course these were in an 'always on' state and the flux of warming up/cooling down (from powering up/down) is likely to influence those figures).
Dan
That article changed my perceptions!! It would be nice to see a test with drives running 24/7 to see which temp range actually fairs better, but maybe I wont look for such cool drives til someone does that test.
Mike
Remember, I am opinionated and nothing I say or do reflects on anyone or anything else but me
I wonder just how snug a fit it is for the drive.... if you had some thermal transfer tape on the sides of the drive if that wouldn't help with the cooling at all or not.
AMD 960T OC'ed to 4gz
ASRock 970 EXTREME4 AM3+ AMD 970
2 X G.SKILL Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000)(16gb)
EVGA SuperClocked 02G-P4-2682-KR GeForce GTX 680 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16
surprised its not that noisy as all the 40mm fans ive used are quite whiny
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