ATake HDD Sink
Review by: Steve
Edited by: Ji4m
Provided by: Wisetech

Introduction:
With manufacturers constantly making bigger and bigger hard drives most people don't think about the side effects. Along with all of the added space, added heat comes along free of charge. Heat is a hard drives worst enemy and if not taken care of it can lead to a shortened lifespan of the hard drive.
ATake has come up with a way to battle the heat and take care of the noise as well. This is the ATake HDD Sink, read on!

In The Box:
(2) Hard Drive Heatsinks
(8) Mounting Screws

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Specs:
All aluminum design transfers heat away from the hard drive quickly

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Features:
The HDD Sink is made of Aluminum like many CPU heatsinks are. Aluminum is a great material to effeciently transfer heat off the surface of your hot hard drive. As you may know, a cooler hard drive has a longer life span than a hot hard drive!
The HDD Sink also works to dampen the sound of the hard drive. The screws that mount to both the hard drive and the case mount go through large rubber blocks. These blocks do a great job of absorbing the shock and vibration of the hard drive which also leads to a longer life for the hard drive.

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Installation:
The first step of installation is to firmly secure one heatsink on each side of the hard drive. This is done by screwing through the mounting holes in the heatsink and into the holes that the hard drive would usually use to mount to a case/drive rails. After the heatsinks are mounted on each side of the drive the next step is to either screw the heatsinks into a drive bay or in my case I had to screw a drive rail onto each heatsink to slide it into my case.

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Testing:
For testing the HDD Sink I recorded my high and low temperatures with the heatsink installed and without the heatsink installed. Testing was done on a Maxtor 40gig hard drive.

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Without Cooler:
Low: 25C
High: 40C
With Cooler:
Low: 23C
High: 33C

As you can see, the test results were superb, with the hard drive showing very noticable, large drops in temperature. This will lead to a longer hard drive life overall due to less heat constantly surrounding the drive.

Conclusion:
Overall the ATake HDD Sink is a great investment and I highly recommend them. It's a way to keep your hard drives running cool and healthy and it also doubles as a hard drive silencer to rid your case of a little noise.

Pros:
Cools hard drive very well
Dampens hard drive shock and vibrations
Stylish design

Cons:
None!

Rating: 10/10

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A big thanks to Wisetech who provided the HDD sink for review!