Digital Everywhere

I have my Epia Mini-ITX ME6000 inside a nice black aluminum case. It is a SilverStone LaScala LC06.

Originally it was a little too noicy. The harddisk was making too much noice. Basically it was the vibrations transmitting to the case causing the noice. The harddisk was hard mounted under the motherboard, so I put the harddisk on top of the DVD drive instead, as you can see here:

Unfortunately that made the harddisk much too hot (55+ degrees), since there was no longer a direct metal-to-metal connection. So I needed some cooling. I already had an 80mm case fan above the heatsink for the CPU, sucking air out of the case, but this was not sufficient.
So I decided to use the same case fan to blow air onto the harddisk. To make it work, I had to cut a big piece out of the back panel and place the fan on the outside of the case. The result can be seen here:

And it works! The harddisk is now only 32 degrees.

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