you follow the 1.0625 to 1.125" per hard drive spacing specs most manufacturers drill for...

Of course, you will need an 80mm fan at the head of the drives. 3 drives can be cover by on 80cm fan provided it has a thermistor and you put that themistor inbetween the pcb and the drive chassis.

usually they have some kind of non-conductive foam between them now. Make sure you get as close the the middle screw hole and about 1/3 in if possible. that s about where the pan motor "resides"

For high density drive installations, I use 1.125" ( a tad smaller actually ) per-drive standing 4 on edge and 1 flat on top to get 5 drives per 1.5 5.25" Full height (really a bit wider than that for most, especially those with rails or quick mounts.)

so I get something like 15 drives in a 4.5 Full height setup (or 9 half-height). I use perforated steel slot covers to mount the fans and filters on. I have tried 18 drives... but that just runs to hot and not enough air flow.

Of course, I actually am trying to use 120mm fans, more air-flow, less speed, less noise, more costly though (no deals I have found yet).

Now on another case I have, I am trying to engineer a method for keeping the heat downwhilst mounting 36 standard sized 3.5" hard drives using drives mount from the sid eof the chassis and cross flow cooling using staggered/stacked 80mm fans.

So far I have only been able to mock up 30 drives, with 2 power supplies, a motherboard and a power bus for the hard drives using short jumpers from the bus to the drives... must be SATA drives or there won't be any room for cabling.

Don't ask about this one. It just may not be in the cards.

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you follow the 1.0625 to 1.125" per hard drive spacing specs most manufacturers drill for...

Of course, you will need an 80mm fan at the head of the drives. 3 drives can be cover by on 80cm fan provided it has a thermistor and you put that themistor inbetween the pcb and the drive chassis.

usually they have some kind of non-conductive foam between them now. Make sure you get as close the the middle screw hole and about 1/3 in if possible. that s about where the pan motor "resides"

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BAHHH just scratch that crap you don't need to know.

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