Project 850
The hard drive was cooled with a combination of The
Ultimate Hard Drive Cooler and a Global Win I-Storm. The first part of this project is
pretty simple. Installing the Ultimate Hard Drive Cooler is a 5 minute operation. My hard
drive is mounted at the top of the In Win Q500 case. The floppy drive is also mounted
there, to the front. To make this install really overkill, I put heatsink compound between
the heatsink and the hard drive.
Installing the Global Win I-Storm was the hardest part
of the project. A plasma cutter was used to cut the back opening. If you don't have access
to such a cutting tool, you can use a Dermal or jig saw with a metal cutting blade.
Before you can start cutting, you have to put 2 small
rivets between the stamped sheet metal of the top cover. You can see them in the above
photo next to the I-Storm. This prevented the unit from flying apart during the cutting
process. After cutting, we test fit the unit and used a metal file to get rid of excess
metal that was preventing the I-Storm from sliding in. Once the fit was perfect, the
I-Storm was glue in place with some hot glue.
Here is the finished setup. Looks like some space
docking station. The I-Storm looks a lot better at the back of the case than it does
sticking out a 5.25" drive bay. Those metal slots that runs along the side of the top
cover are not sealed off. They act as exhaust ports to take out the air from the I-Storm.
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