HardwareVigor iSURF II Hard Drive Cooling System - Keeping it Cool...
We take a quick look at Vigor Gaming's hard disk cooling system that provides a unique design which actually works....
We receive a lot of interesting products in the labs for review over the course of a year. We do not always review all of these products, although we will at least make mention of them in our blogs or forums from this point forward. In the meantime, there are those products that sometimes deserve more than a mention for a variety of reasons. Today we have one of those products and it comes from Vigor Gaming. Vigor Gaming is best known for custom gaming systems that provide a high degree of customer satisfaction along with a fairly reasonable price to performance ratio depending on the configuration layout. What most users might not know is that Vigor Gaming offers several component choices for separate purchase. Of these, the iSURF II Hard Drive Cooling System caught our attention when it arrived. Not so much for the fact that it is a hard drive cooler, more so for the fact that it had a certain industrial art edge to it and it felt like a very solid piece of hardware. While the design was the most interesting aspect of the product, we wondered out loud if it really worked. As it turns out, it does work as we will see shortly. In the meantime, let's take a quick look at the product design. Actually this is bottom side of the iSURF II where the drive resides and is installed. The unit contains two 40mm fans rated at 20.7 dB(A), a blue LED, and separate power connectors for both, which is a nice touch as the LED... [ Read more on www.anandtech.com ]
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