Cooler Master CoolDrive 6 Silver $9.99 svc.com -Holy hot!

[postlot]

Cooler Master CoolDrive 6 Silver $9.99 svc.com -Holy hot!

here:
http://www.svc.com/lhd-v06-us-19.html

It is a hard drive cooler + fan controller (3 independent channels control your CPU/case fans)

review here:
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article234-page1.html
and here:
http://www.hardwaremods.com/reviews/cooling/cooldrive6/cooldrive-6-review.html

I ordered the same product (black though, while this one is silver) from xoxide.com a couple of weeks ago @$24.99 here:
http://www.xoxide.com/cooler-master-cool-drive-6-black.html
Fortunately (yes, fortunately), it was cancelled because of out of stock. (Still out of stock even now)

newegg now has it(black only) for $12.99 + 4.99 shipping.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835888206

Similar deal as svc since shipping @svc starts from around $8.

But if you order more than one, svc is better.

 

[SignalSoldier]

WOW what a discount but for some reason I would think there is a major factor in this?? Is this thing a piece of rubbish??

 

[BrokenVisage]

Coolermaster != rubbish.. but that is one helluva discount.. *contemplates*

 

[isekii]

Originally posted by: SignalSoldier
WOW what a discount but for some reason I would think there is a major factor in this?? Is this thing a piece of rubbish??

Coolermaster is awesome man.
They're a bit overpriced, but at this discount, you can't go wrong.

 

[dabuddha]

Tempted!

 

[WA261]

16.91 with shipping. Had to get one. =)

 

[BlackGlove]

Just picked up one, couldn't resist the shiny case and lights.

 

[Oakind]

I'm in for a black one at newegg.

I had a $15 credit sitting in my account burning a hole. So my net was 2.75 after the credit.

Thanks OP !!

 

[Devil2U]

Picked up TWO of them!



For $10 each, how can you say no.

 

[Skiguy411]

I have the aerogate 3 that looks exactly like this, but I would like to be able to cool my raptor and have the software.....geezzzzzz i dont know!

 

[afoygel]

ya it's cheap... but useless

 

[trend]

Crap.. I just purchased 2 cooler master hd coolers (the ones without the lcd).. for $29.99 or something (they were 10bucks off at newegg)..

I wonder if cooler master is fazing out their hd cooling for new ones?... wierd

 

[kamranziadar]

Great price for nice product, thanx

 

[idea]

I would've bought this in a second last week, instead I rigged up an 80mm in front of my hd cage. It's probably quieter like this anyway. Plus I don't lose any 5.25 drive space

 

[labgeek]

Just got this in email...

This is still available at 9.99 + shipping as of 10/20...

Black ones are $29.99 http://www.svc.com/lhd-v06-uk-19.html

 

[phantom309]

Not to thread crap, but this seems silly to me. You're putting your drive in a little enclosed box, which will make it run hotter. So the box has fans, which will make the drive somewhat cooler - and a temprature display to alert you if it overheats, which it wouldn't be doing anyway if you hadn't put it in a little enclosed box.

It does look cool though, and the price is right.

 

[Commando Moe]

I just bought one for myself as well, came out to be like $17.73
stupid shipping

 

[labgeek]

Originally posted by: phantom309
Not to thread crap, but this seems silly to me. You're putting your drive in a little enclosed box, which will make it run hotter. So the box has fans, which will make the drive somewhat cooler - and a temprature display to alert you if it overheats, which it wouldn't be doing anyway if you hadn't put it in a little enclosed box.

It does look cool though, and the price is right.

I guess putting that big metal plate on your CPU makes it run hotter too.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article234-page3.html

Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 (40gb) HDD in Cooldrive6
Hard drive temperatures were monitored via SpeedFan 4.16
Idle temperatures listed are stable temperatures at Windows desktop with the drive powered on.
Load temperatures are the maximum drive temperatures recorded during large continous file transfers between drive partitions.
Ambient temperature for all tests was 23°C.

HDD Condition Idle Load
Cooldrive 6 w/ internal fan at full speed 32°C 34°C
Cooldrive 6 w/ fan at 1/2 speed 32°C 35°C
Cooldrive 6 w/ fan off 34°C 40°C
Bare Drive, w/o Cooldrive 6 39°C 50°C

Looks like about 1/3 cooler vs bare drive at load. Hmm... :shocked:

It's called a "heatsink".

BTW, unless you're leaving them sitting out on the desktop, aren't you already putting them in little boxes with fans, aka your computer case?

 

[czech09]

If it was black I'd pick one up, I don't want a huge silver thing around all my black stuff. I don't want my case to get pissed...

 

[labgeek]

That's my problem... I want black, and knowing the silver is $10, I don't want to spend $30 ea on the black ones. Guess I'm just a cheap arse.

 

[BlackGlove]

I picked up this coolermaster model a while back and love it. The only downside to this is the software used to monitor temp and control fans.....its not very good. Otherwise, it looks really nice in the case, the cooler interface works really nice which helps off set the weak software. Definitely worth the price.

 

[BlackGlove]

Darn, I couldn't resist....in for another one.

 

[kamranziadar]

How many HARD DRIVES it can hold.

 

[HumblePie]

Originally posted by: kamranziadar
How many HARD DRIVES it can hold.

One at a time....

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: HumblePie

Originally posted by: kamranziadar
How many HARD DRIVES it can hold.

One at a time....

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