Scythe ITA Kaze 3-Pin Slim Hard Disk Cooler (SCIT-1000)

I'm in the process, right now, of upgrading an existing PC, and part of that is going to include putting one of these onto each of my size physical hard disk drives. I'm replacing 4x of another type of cooler, which is just SLIGHTLY "taller" and this precludes each drive having its own cooler.The main advantage of this is that the height of the device, when added to a standard-size HD, EXACTLY fills up the standard "available space. Meaning, this will cool both the drive above it and the drive below it, and will not require leaving empty "slots."The design brings in a small volume of air at the "side notches" and forces it outwards through the finned regions. Yeah, it's not a TON of air, but it's more than enough to keep your HD nice and cool when in continuous duty. Obviously, if you can leave a slot open below this, the cooling will be more effective...air from the "open space below it will be pushed out "generally" through the fins... but it's the only air cooler I've found which works well without using up an adjacent slot.If you don't want to give up your HD slots, you have really just three choices...(1) No additional cooling (relying on your case fans' air flow alone, which is the standard of course).(2) Using a slim water-cooling block (which is the best option, if you're willing to go with the complexity and potential risks of a water-cooled computer)(3) Using this.I actually DO water-cool my main system components (motherboard chipset, motherboard MOSFETs, CPU, memory, and video card). But I still prefer this device to most of the HD water cooling blocks I've seen, for reduced risk, reduced cooling complexity, and reduced COST, of course!

It does work, fan spins, for now. Used it for about 1.5 months (not daily though).I Cannot see why this is sooooo pricey though, nearly 20 bucks (Dec 2016) and now I see its dropped to about 14 bucks (jan 2017).At about 8 bucks (shipping included) it would be seemingly worth it, but..still not a high quality bearing system used, it's SLEEVE bearings, NOT ball bearings.Sleeve bearing fans can maintain life spans comparable to ball bearing fans when the sleeve bearing fans are mounted in vertical positions.However, when sleeve bearing fans are mounted in any position other than vertical, the fan’s life span decreases.This fan will most probably, for most all users, be mounted horizontally, which means, it will fail much sooner than a quality ball bearing fan.I cannot complain, they did state that it's a lame sleeve bearing fan in the product listing..Not sure HOW this actually will work with most modern PC cases as the cases almost always use some quick install/release clip method of holding a hard drive into the bays. In those type of drive bays, this fan will not fit. You'd need a bay with more room for this fan to fit on the top or bottom of your hard drive (most probably the bottom).What I did was place this fan in the spare unused drive bay above my WD black HD. Fan blows down to the drive now, but defeats this fans "heat sink" aluminum chassis (no contact to my HD and will now draw heat from it). Any ol fan would have done that job for me, at much less cost.If I had to do it all over again, I'd not buy this, due to the ridiculous price of it (even as it's now about 14 bucks, still way to costly, since it cannot be mounted to a drive and fit into the drive bay AND that it's a sleeve bearing fan).If you need a thin fan, keep looking, else pay the high price for this.Or try this one out and mount in spare bay like I did for my other HD, 3.5" HDD Hard Disk Drive Cooler Cooling Fan Heatsink 28 by Crazy Cart (here on amazon for about 6 bucks). Yes, it too is the cheesy lame sleeve bearing fan too but much less cost than this one and it will blow air on your drive. It is thicker but will fit into spare drive bay. No need for uber thin one like this Scythe.

easy to mount, works fine so far - been running them for a few days non stop - very quiet, cannot hear them (using two)

I bought this in 2014 for a WD Black 4T hard drive that was running warm in a full hard drive cage with no room for a larger cooler. It brought the HDD temperature down and has been running fine continuously ever since. (The system is only off when I go on vacation). It fit, it works, it's reliable; set it and forget it.I'm looking at it again in 2020 as I spec out a new build.

Quiet and strong air flow keeps the WD Black 2TB @ 82° to 86° F range under all conditions. Excellent price and quality. Simple installation and very low profile. Would highly recomend for all critical applications.

Added this cooler to an additional hard drive in my PC. I've had it for about 6 months; it is still working, but now makes noise. I really don't expect that it will last much longer. Works, but not a long-term solution.

I like this fan. The only trouble with it, is that it seems to have sleeve bearings, so i doubt it will last very long.Otherwise, it's has a really low profile, compared to a Thermaltake i have, conduction heat transfer, has a system board connector, and proper size mounting screws.My case is really hot. In an 24 C room, it keeps my 7200rpm drives about 40-41C, which is about 7-8 degrees C lower than it was without the fan.(The Thermaltake i have on a second drive give almost exactly the same numbers, and is a little cheaper, but doesn't have conduction heat transfer, a board connector, or the right size mount screws for the bottom mount.)I would buy another Scythe fan one, when i need it.

I use this fun for HDD docking station. I bought one of docking station before, but it getting hot when I use long time. I arranged and attached it docking unit with cooling fan. Now, it is cool enough even I use it in long time. I love this quiet fan because all of my computer system is without noisy cooling fun or fun less. I use my system to use for hifi audio listening with iTunes since I have several thousand of CD. Now. This fan is best for my quiet system.