zackbass

It's understandable that the drives would be much louder than normal, it IS a RAID 0 array of WD Raptors. The Eheim pump that I have is really nice, but for this next case I might use an Iwaki/Eheim combo.

All of the cooling in the isolation chamber will be done with water. I'm thinking that a single waterblock sandwiched between the bottoms of two drives woudl work nicely.

This HDD chamber will probably end up to be a normal sound isolation chamber. I doubt I'll use such noisy drives again, there are so many better alternatives that are almost as fast. The vacuum chamber would probably be too much of a hassle because I'd have to evacuate it every time I want to get to the hard disks.

thrawn86

Have you considered the retail HD waterblocks? looks like they offer more surface area than just a single waterblock would.

zackbass

The actual waterblock I want to use is the Koolance: http://www.svc.com/hdc1-a01-18.html
That's exactly what I was thinking of before I even saw they already made it. Even one waterblock for two drives is probably overkill, but that's the way it'll be.

zackbass

Here's the block diagram for the entire WC system I have planned.
http://members.lycos.co.uk/zackbass/img017.jpg
Can anyone tell me what's so special about it?

thrawn86

LOL resivor. all those welding fumes must be getting to your head man.