Since my Hard Drive is a 7200rpm Quantum drive it can get a little hot, nothing compared to a 10,000rpm SCSI drive of course. Some people may think, why cool off your Hard Drive. It s simple, as a Hard Drive heats up the media inside slowly expands due to heat. Thus, shortening the life of the Hard Drive, in some cases sectors the disk becomes unreliable. With that said, most users that have a 5,400rpm Hard Drive, it isn t necessary for you to cool it.
Most computer cases have sufficient cooling.
However, if you do have a fast drive, I would recommend using a Hard Drive cooler. Most coolers out in the market today are fan based, there are some products that feature a heatsink. While Fan Based products are overall good coolers, heatsinks tend to get the top surface cool, but they do lag on bottom temperatures. Naturally, I decided to combine the two. I believe I have.