Passive Cooling for laptop- part 2 (HDD)

Hello everyone,

Chatting with your friend using a laptop's Toasty Palm rest During the Scorching Summers of India Is not the way to spend a nice weekend, is it?

My beast had not One, but two Of 7200 RPM HDDs in RAID 0.

Blazing fast and just as hot. Its common to reach temps of 45~46 on Idle.

 Time to save my fabulous palms from being cooked into cookies.

So here's my shot at passive cooling!

P.S- Keep an eye out for my Passive Project part 1 Where i'd Cool the GPU and CPU too!

Step 1 Copper ahoy!

Copper ( /ękRpYr/ KOP-Yr) is a chemical element with the symbol Cu (Latin: cuprum) and atomic number 29. It is a ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity.

 With Excellent Thermal conductivity (300 K) 401 W·m−1·K−1, one of the best beauties to cool this beast down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper

http://www.engineersedge.com/properties_of_metals.htm

 I brought a 1.5mm Copper sheet that costed me 600 Rupees.

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