Evercool Equips Hard Drives with Full Body Armor

With an overall dimension of 150 x 85 x 162 mm, Evercool's Armor Hard Drive Cooler was designed to create just the right temperature for the drives to operate properly. Despite what some people may think, HDDs are not like chips. They do not work better if they are supercooled. In order for an HDD to function properly and not shorten its lifespan, it has to run at about 40 degrees Celsius.

Evercool's cooling case converts 5.25” bays into 3.5”, effectively allowing room for three hard disks, while also bringing the drives closer together. Now, while this does indeed create the possibility for overheating, an optimum running temperature is sustained by the 8cm (80 x 80 x 25 mm) 2 ball-bearing, long-life fan.

Colored either black or silver, the heat sink is constructed out of a combination of iron and plastic materials. The internal drive cage is entirely steel-wrought, and the metal front bezel is perforated, ensuring air-intake possibilities. In addition, in order to avoid both overheating but also overcooling, the fan has a maximum rotary speed of about 1,200 (±10%) RPM.

The filters are efficient, effectively keeping the inside of the case clean, while also allowing the air to circulate. Nevertheless, the perforated intake will eventually gather dust. To easily remedy this, the inside filters are easily demountable for cleaning. The product even boasts an aseismatic design, which protects the installed hard drives from any impact damage.

The cooler operates on 12V rated voltage, weighs only 585g and has a noise level somewhat lower than 26dBA. Unfortunately, there is no information on the minor estimated price, nor on the availability of the Armor at this time.

Evercool is a Taiwanese cooling fan manufacturer, which specializes in PC thermal solutions, especially on CPU-cooling mechanisms, whether or not they are water coolers or DC Fans. The company also develops heat pipes, H.D.D. coolers, system blowers and peripherals.