**Experimenting with Liquid Cooling a Hard Drive**

We're going to reinstall this on the hard drive and test it outside before we try to put it in the water mhm mhm H mhm so it's possible that the painting that I did on the PCB covered up these metal contacts for data and power so we're just going to give it the old have you tried unplugging it and plugging it back in repeatedly try and scrape those connectors clean that does seem to be making a difference I don't know if you can see that close up there but you can see the conformal coating is uh coming up I don't even think it's spinning up H yeah this drive is definitely not powered up okay so it's a power issue we can work with that let's get out the old scraper just go at it a bit more aggressively here can't imagine just spraying conformal coating on it would have destroyed it found the problem there were three contact points under here I didn't sand the ones for power for the motor so of course it's not spinning up let's go ahead and give that the old you know hard drive sanding technique yes okay there it is there's our 10 TBte Drive okay so it's time time for what time to figure out um what data I can copy for a test

I am basically going to take the drive and put it in we're going to see what happens what the hell is this okay so it's some kind of land issue I will deal with that later in the meantime I've got a USB type-c ethernet adapter here and I've have started three transfers each of like 2.3 terabytes worth of data so you can see here we are transferring to the adventure drive from the network so this should take quite some time now this is where it gets real so I'm going to take this drive which is currently right data and ever so carefully cautiously and not at all recklessly oh this pains me I'm actually in pain right now okay I am liquid cooling the hard drive okay I'm halfway in in about 3/4 of the way in is it still transferring still going let's go get some more water okay so to absolutely prove that there's no smoke in mirrors that's not mineral oil here's a new ug look tap water tap water AF let's top it up still transferring but don't take the camera off me we're proving this is a continuous shot here we go okay tap water AF there goes the power connector and the drive is submerged still transfering no okay so let's get the moisture I think the power shorted I think that's what happened here uhoh I don't know what effect alcohol has on the conformal cating um did not think that through okay so it's been Popp in kind of in and out of being detected um I think it's to do with the power connector but quite honestly see here if we try again now boom it's transferring get now it's gone I don't know what we were trying to prove anyway putting it in water because it has no real practical application so let's just go get some mineral oil

so I found all the mineral oil from the mineral oil PC I sincerely hope that I'm not going to make a mess here but as you guys know I'm allergic to funnels so uh the Chan is seem pretty good here we go sh wonderful now okay so here we go can it handle mineral oil I want to see a longer sustained transfer here kids that's what I want to see

So there you have it, folks. We've successfully liquid cooled our hard drive using a combination of mineral oil and careful handling. The results were impressive, with the drive transferring data without issue for an extended period of time. This experiment has shown us the potential of liquid cooling for hard drives, and we're excited to continue exploring this technology further.

**The Importance of Proper Preparation**

As we can see from our experiment, proper preparation is key when it comes to liquid cooling a hard drive. Sanding the contacts and using a suitable lubricant can make all the difference in ensuring a smooth transfer process. Additionally, having a plan B (or C, or D) in place can help mitigate any unexpected issues that may arise during the process.

**Liquid Cooling: The Future of Data Storage**

The use of liquid cooling for hard drives is not just a novelty; it has real-world applications and potential benefits. By leveraging this technology, we can increase the lifespan of our hard drives, reduce energy consumption, and improve overall performance. As researchers and enthusiasts continue to push the boundaries of what's possible with liquid cooling, we can expect to see significant advancements in data storage and processing.

**Other Drops Worth Checking Out**

If you're interested in exploring other liquid-cooled hard drive options, be sure to check out our video on the Desk PC that features a similar setup. Part three of the conclusion is up and ready for your viewing enjoyment

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthe idea of electronics being waterproof isn't exactly new I mean most Flagship phones whether you're talking your s7s or your iPhone 7S whatever the case may be they're designed to go bloop into the water yay look at that they survived it's amazing okay we've all seen this before but what if you could waterproof a computer hard drive impractical yes impossible let's find out corsair's 570x midtower case features four tempered glass panels check it out at the link in the video description so the first and most obvious problem we need to solve is the exposed PCB that you'll find on the bottom of pretty much any modern hard drive if you know a thing or two about water you'll know that while it's starts s non-electrically conductive as soon as it starts to pick up any impurities or metal ions it quickly becomes conductive and will cause any electronic devices that are submerged in it for long enough to short out and or be permanently damaged so I picked myself up a can of mg chemicals conformal coating number 419c 340g it's xylene free toine free low vocc if you're into that sort of thing but more importantly it protects against moisture dirt dust and apparently thermal shocks and insulates against high voltage arcs shorts and static discharge so Step One is we are going to treat our PCB with this stuff okay so let's get started you grab any old hard drive you want and go to town right wrong so most hard drives today are actually full of good oldfashioned air and they've got these breather ports that allow them to stay at the same internal pressure as the atmosphere around them this is imperative for their functionality and this is actually the reason why even when you submerge them in a non-conductive fluid like a mineral oil cooled computer we have a build blog that you can check out here where we actually explained all of this they would still cease to work because through these breather ports the mineral oil or any other fluid would seep in and Gunk up the internals of the hard drive but there's been a recent development in hard drive technology that leads me to believe that perhaps we could run a drive submerged in fluid this is a Seagate Barracuda Pro it is a helium filed drive now the point of helium filled drives was more efficient operation since helium is less dense than air so when you're spinning the spindles around there's less resistance but it also means they had to seal the insides of the drives because if the helium got out then you would lose the benefit right so this is the drive that I will be using 99% isopropyl alcohol and bloop don't worry kids this is definitely safe I've done this many times I'm a professional now let's make ourselves somewhere to spray cuz I think the spray booth is over in the on the other side I have to assume this stuff wouldn't be very good to inhale so don't breathe okay check this out so I sprayed the crap out of it like it is pretty pretty gooped on there and uh it's actually like built up around the outsides of these chips so what I'm hoping is we have achieved the water resistance that we need and done so without damaging the ability of this thing to make contact with the places it has to so this is where it gets really sketch well those are all definitely worn so we're going to reinstall this on the hard drive and test it outside before we try to put it in the water mhm mhm H mhm so it's possible that the painting that I did on the PCB covered up these metal contacts for data and power so we're just going to give it the old have you tried unplugging it and plugging it back in repeatedly try and scrape those connectors clean that does seem to be making a difference I don't know if you can see that close up there but you can see the conformal coating is uh coming up I don't even think it's spinning up H yeah this drive is definitely not powered up okay so it's a power issue we can work with that let's get out the old scraper just go at it a bit more aggressively here can't imagine just spraying conformal coating on it would have destroyed it found the problem there were three contact points under here I didn't sand the ones for power for the motor so of course it's not spinning up let's go ahead and give that the old you know hard drive sanding technique yes okay there it is there's our 10 tbte Drive okay so it's time time for what time to figure out um what data I can copy for a test I am basically going to take the drive and put it in we're going to see what happens what the hell is this okay so it's some kind of land issue I will deal with that later in the meantime I've got a USB type-c ethernet adapter here and I've have started three transfers each of like 2.3 terabytes worth of data so you can see here we are transferring to the adventure drive from the network so this should take quite some time now this is where it gets real so I'm going to take this drive which is currently right data and ever so carefully cautiously and not at all recklessly oh this pains me I'm actually in pain right now okay I am liquid cooling the hard drive okay I'm halfway in in about 3/4 of the way in is it still transferring still going let's go get some more water okay so to absolutely prove that there's no smoke in mirrors that's not mineral oil here's a new ug look tap water tap water AF let's top it up still transferring but don't take the camera off me we're proving this is a continuous shot here we go okay tap water AF there goes the power connector and the drive is submerged still transfering no okay so let's get the moisture I think the power shorted I think that's what happened here uhoh I don't know what effect alcohol has on the conformal cating um did not think that through okay so it's been Popp in kind of in and out of being detected um I think it's to do with the power connector but quite honestly see here if we try again now boom it's transferring get now it's gone I don't know what we were trying to prove anyway putting it in water because it has no real practical application so let's just go get some mineral oil so I found all the mineral oil from the mineral oil PC I sincerely hope that I'm not going to make a mess here but as you guys know I'm allergic to funnels so uh the Chan is seem pretty good here we go sh wonderful now okay so here we go can it handle mineral oil I want to see a longer sustained transfer here kids that's what I want to see so you saw it here first folks liquid cooled hard drive hopefully my editors have found some way to turn what's happened in the last half an hour or so into some kind of coherent narrative and hopefully you guys enjoyed it if you aren't familiar with mass drop they're the community where users discuss products that they're interested in buying and then Mast drop talks to the manufacturer and negotiates a bulk order at a discounted price and they're Now featuring featuring a drop for the high-fi man re IM they have 9mm Dynamic drivers and they ship with two pairs of silicone ear tips and they're only about $35 which is pretty sweet so check them out and other drops at the link in the video description down below thanks for watching this video If You disliked it you know what to do but if you liked it hit that like button get subscribed maybe even consider checking out our merch store where you can buy cool shirts like this one or our link to Amazon where you can buy stuff like what we featured in the video like I don't know maybe this 10 TB hard drive that apparently can run under not water but non-conductive fluid now that you're done doing all that stuff you're probably wondering what to watch next so check out our video oh excuse me my throat our video on the desk PC that you see right here part three the conclusion is up and ready for your viewing enjoymentthe idea of electronics being waterproof isn't exactly new I mean most Flagship phones whether you're talking your s7s or your iPhone 7S whatever the case may be they're designed to go bloop into the water yay look at that they survived it's amazing okay we've all seen this before but what if you could waterproof a computer hard drive impractical yes impossible let's find out corsair's 570x midtower case features four tempered glass panels check it out at the link in the video description so the first and most obvious problem we need to solve is the exposed PCB that you'll find on the bottom of pretty much any modern hard drive if you know a thing or two about water you'll know that while it's starts s non-electrically conductive as soon as it starts to pick up any impurities or metal ions it quickly becomes conductive and will cause any electronic devices that are submerged in it for long enough to short out and or be permanently damaged so I picked myself up a can of mg chemicals conformal coating number 419c 340g it's xylene free toine free low vocc if you're into that sort of thing but more importantly it protects against moisture dirt dust and apparently thermal shocks and insulates against high voltage arcs shorts and static discharge so Step One is we are going to treat our PCB with this stuff okay so let's get started you grab any old hard drive you want and go to town right wrong so most hard drives today are actually full of good oldfashioned air and they've got these breather ports that allow them to stay at the same internal pressure as the atmosphere around them this is imperative for their functionality and this is actually the reason why even when you submerge them in a non-conductive fluid like a mineral oil cooled computer we have a build blog that you can check out here where we actually explained all of this they would still cease to work because through these breather ports the mineral oil or any other fluid would seep in and Gunk up the internals of the hard drive but there's been a recent development in hard drive technology that leads me to believe that perhaps we could run a drive submerged in fluid this is a Seagate Barracuda Pro it is a helium filed drive now the point of helium filled drives was more efficient operation since helium is less dense than air so when you're spinning the spindles around there's less resistance but it also means they had to seal the insides of the drives because if the helium got out then you would lose the benefit right so this is the drive that I will be using 99% isopropyl alcohol and bloop don't worry kids this is definitely safe I've done this many times I'm a professional now let's make ourselves somewhere to spray cuz I think the spray booth is over in the on the other side I have to assume this stuff wouldn't be very good to inhale so don't breathe okay check this out so I sprayed the crap out of it like it is pretty pretty gooped on there and uh it's actually like built up around the outsides of these chips so what I'm hoping is we have achieved the water resistance that we need and done so without damaging the ability of this thing to make contact with the places it has to so this is where it gets really sketch well those are all definitely worn so we're going to reinstall this on the hard drive and test it outside before we try to put it in the water mhm mhm H mhm so it's possible that the painting that I did on the PCB covered up these metal contacts for data and power so we're just going to give it the old have you tried unplugging it and plugging it back in repeatedly try and scrape those connectors clean that does seem to be making a difference I don't know if you can see that close up there but you can see the conformal coating is uh coming up I don't even think it's spinning up H yeah this drive is definitely not powered up okay so it's a power issue we can work with that let's get out the old scraper just go at it a bit more aggressively here can't imagine just spraying conformal coating on it would have destroyed it found the problem there were three contact points under here I didn't sand the ones for power for the motor so of course it's not spinning up let's go ahead and give that the old you know hard drive sanding technique yes okay there it is there's our 10 tbte Drive okay so it's time time for what time to figure out um what data I can copy for a test I am basically going to take the drive and put it in we're going to see what happens what the hell is this okay so it's some kind of land issue I will deal with that later in the meantime I've got a USB type-c ethernet adapter here and I've have started three transfers each of like 2.3 terabytes worth of data so you can see here we are transferring to the adventure drive from the network so this should take quite some time now this is where it gets real so I'm going to take this drive which is currently right data and ever so carefully cautiously and not at all recklessly oh this pains me I'm actually in pain right now okay I am liquid cooling the hard drive okay I'm halfway in in about 3/4 of the way in is it still transferring still going let's go get some more water okay so to absolutely prove that there's no smoke in mirrors that's not mineral oil here's a new ug look tap water tap water AF let's top it up still transferring but don't take the camera off me we're proving this is a continuous shot here we go okay tap water AF there goes the power connector and the drive is submerged still transfering no okay so let's get the moisture I think the power shorted I think that's what happened here uhoh I don't know what effect alcohol has on the conformal cating um did not think that through okay so it's been Popp in kind of in and out of being detected um I think it's to do with the power connector but quite honestly see here if we try again now boom it's transferring get now it's gone I don't know what we were trying to prove anyway putting it in water because it has no real practical application so let's just go get some mineral oil so I found all the mineral oil from the mineral oil PC I sincerely hope that I'm not going to make a mess here but as you guys know I'm allergic to funnels so uh the Chan is seem pretty good here we go sh wonderful now okay so here we go can it handle mineral oil I want to see a longer sustained transfer here kids that's what I want to see so you saw it here first folks liquid cooled hard drive hopefully my editors have found some way to turn what's happened in the last half an hour or so into some kind of coherent narrative and hopefully you guys enjoyed it if you aren't familiar with mass drop they're the community where users discuss products that they're interested in buying and then Mast drop talks to the manufacturer and negotiates a bulk order at a discounted price and they're Now featuring featuring a drop for the high-fi man re IM they have 9mm Dynamic drivers and they ship with two pairs of silicone ear tips and they're only about $35 which is pretty sweet so check them out and other drops at the link in the video description down below thanks for watching this video If You disliked it you know what to do but if you liked it hit that like button get subscribed maybe even consider checking out our merch store where you can buy cool shirts like this one or our link to Amazon where you can buy stuff like what we featured in the video like I don't know maybe this 10 TB hard drive that apparently can run under not water but non-conductive fluid now that you're done doing all that stuff you're probably wondering what to watch next so check out our video oh excuse me my throat our video on the desk PC that you see right here part three the conclusion is up and ready for your viewing enjoyment\n"