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More hard drive slots? No problem! Extra vibrations are good for hard drives probably.

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Vibrations are movement. Hard drives have moving components. That means that vibrations help read/write speeds!

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Movement… increases speed… that sounds right!

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So there should be a Disk Vibrator!

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I can hear the case vibration in that picture lol

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This isn’t a high rpm fan, it’s enough to keep the LSI card cool.

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Ohh I was referring to the pic posted behind the “No problem” link in that user’s comment lol

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What temps were you seeing before adding the fan?

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Just add hard drives until there is no play for vibration.

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Improvised but at the same time cared enough to put 4 ties where the bolts would go. Approved.

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A coworker of mine was an computer engineer in the early 2000s, but is now a warehouse director. She told me she helped her son build a new pc but it was having heating issues. I asked about fans and she said it only had 2 intake on the front with no exhaust. Told her a local shop that has cheaply priced good fans. She said computers have changed a lot in 20 years. I helped in about a week ago with choosing storage blocks, had no clue nvme even existed.

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nvme did kinda feel like it arrived out of nowhere!

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You do lose touch rather quickly. I’m a software developer, but I’m not really interested in hardware in my free time, so I honestly didn’t know what exactly to make of nvme until very recently.

The first time I saw an m.2 SSD in real life was about a year ago.

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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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PCIe Peripheral Component Interconnect Express
SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage
SSD Solid State Drive mass storage

3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 13 acronyms.

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Gotta love a good TLA.

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When I was a kid, the first PC I built was a white box with a Pentium 4 HT, which was still a fairly new CPU at the time. It ran hot so I cut a hole in the side of the case, bolted a 120 MM fan in the hole, and covered it with a shroud that I think I must have fabricated with Aluminum facia.

It didn’t look pretty but it worked. And it kept my bedroom toasty in the winter.

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I mean, that’s essentially how my first tower PC was cooled. Bought it as a complete PC and the cooling was a blower style fan that sucked cool air through vents on the side via a plastic shroud.

And it was also one of the wonderful pentium 4 space heaters with incidental compute.

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