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How cool should SA Tivo be?
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Posted by: FenceMan

I have upgraded my SA Tivo to dual 120gb hard drives. They are both Maxtor, one is 5400 rpm, and the other is 7200 rpm. I have installed hard drive cooler fans on both drives. The Tivo has been consistently at 35 degrees. I am considering putting some type of vent on top to give the hard drive fans the ability to blow out of the box. Does anyone think this is necessary? Will it help even if it isnt necessary? What temperature should I try for?

Posted by: Robert S

35 degrees sounds entirely normal for an SA. Do a search for posts by craftsman, he's done some radical surgery to his TiVo and posted a nice analysis of where holes in a TiVo should go to improve cooling.

Posted by: FenceMan

Thanks. It sits in my usually very cold downstairs so it stays cool, I would like to maximize the life of my drives and I am guessing keeping them cool is the best way to do that.

Posted by: highwire

My Philips SA with 2x80Gb (7200 rpm) drives varies between 33 and 35 degrees C. Except for the extra drive, I haven't made any other modifications (such as extra holes and fans).

This is in a room where the temperature varies between 75 and 77 degrees.

Posted by: ewilts

My original unmodified TiVo with its 30GB drive would typically run in the 38-40 range. I've since replaced the drive with a 7200rpm 80GB drive, and it's sitting at 42 today.

If you enable backdoors and look at the logs, you can see the cutoffs that are in the software. If I'm reading and remembering the logs correctly, I believe the TiVo shuts down at 65.

.../Ed

Posted by: FenceMan

Is this overkill? Have hard drive fans on both drives, one case fan on top to pull the hot air off of the drives and one case fan over the motherboard to blow cool air in. It shows 27 degrees, not sure if that is because a fan is blowing on the thermometer or what.

Posted by: Francesco

Where will you stack the Quaddrive drives??? :)

Posted by: Cpen

quote:
Originally posted by FenceMan
Is this overkill?.

Holy Cr@p dude! Can you hear anything with all the noise that thing must make? Do the lights in your house dim when you plug it in? Does it hover a few inches off the ground while running? :D

I'm not sure overkill is the word for that - Man! Seven fans! Seven!

P

Posted by: feldon23

Can I hijack this thread to ask what hard drive coolers people recommend for a computer that aren't too loud?

Sometimes I am running SoundForge or another program which races my 60GB IBM Deskstar for minutes at a time. This results in a lot of heat and the hard drive starts clicking and going into standby from the heat. Not good. :(

Posted by: FenceMan

Its really not that loud at all (suprisingly).

Posted by: MacOS X

quote:
Originally posted by FenceMan
Is this overkill? Have hard drive fans on both drives, one case fan on top to pull the hot air off of the drives and one case fan over the motherboard to blow cool air in. It shows 27 degrees, not sure if that is because a fan is blowing on the thermometer or what.

ROFL!:D