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How is the ATAboy cooled?

April 26, 2017ataboy cooled

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How is the ATAboy cooled?

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The 8-drive ATAboy has two huge centrifugal blowers, one in each PSU module. Air comes in the front, through the mid-plane, and out the PSU. The RAID controller has an additional fan to cool the CPU but this is mainly a precaution, as it does not get very hot. The 14-drive ATAboy has centrifugal blowers in the PSU modules, and each RAID controller has its own blower. Like the 8-drive, air flows through the mid-plane, and out the PSU and RAID modules. The ATAboy does not get very hot — the drives dissipate about half the power of their SCSI/FC cousins.