You forget that 'fans' are not the only way to cool components. There are heat sinks and I think the whole design is a giant heatskink as there is a lot of surface area.
You forget that 'fans' are not the only way to cool components. There are heat sinks and I think the whole design is a giant heatskink as there is a lot of surface area.
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This is certainly an interesting thought; I didn't 'forget' it I just took for granted that each of those visible sinks (I'm presuming the 'grill' surface between each drive bay is a sink, which could be a mistake, but with HDs it's better safe than sorry in my experience) would require it's own fan due to the impossibility of establishing a broader airflow pattern. With no containment you can't plan out how the air will move, so you have to simply plan to move the warm air away from the hot component.
That's a lot of assumptions though, so I'm not putting any money on my idle comment it's just the first thing that came to mind. It'd be interesting to see a liquid cooling system integrated across the exposed surfaces but that would reduce some of the elegance of the design I suppose.
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