Fans built into hard drives....

[runawayboulder]

...are they absolutely necessary? The reason I ask is because I have a hard drive with 2 small fans that are built in and the have both stopped working. Personally I don't care because it made the computer much quieter, the tower is well ventilated, and it's in a good dust free area.

I just want to make sure that the next step down the road isn't hard drive failure. If anybody has input, feel free......

 

[black_dust]

None of my hard drives have fans on them (i did buy a fan once but it was useless) and my system runs fine.

Seems odd that your computer would come with a HD fan on it, is it a unit screwed on with its own power socket or is it totally integrated with the hard drive?

 

[runawayboulder]

No, it has 2 that are totally integrated on the bottom side of the drive. There was a point where a wire was touching one of the fans and making a rubbing noise. I opened up the tower and made things inside a little neater with some wire ties.

I always found the fans loud and annoying, so I'm kinda glad that they died. My tower purrs like a kitten now. I just hope it isn't a symptom of the hard drive eventually crapping out.

The hard drive or the inside of the case never really gets hot, I've got a sweet case fan in there. There's also a fan on the bottom of the power supply and the fan for the CPU that's pretty big and works very well.