Scythe Himuro Hard Disk Cooler

Testing & Results
 
I decided to compare the Scythe Himuro against the Scythe Quiet Drive; considering that they are both designed to do the same job essentially. I will be looking at idle and load temperatures between the two units to see which provides the better temperature reduction. The test setup for today’s review has been included below:
 
Intel Q6600 Quad-core processor @ 2.4Ghz
ASUS P5B Deluxe wifi/App motherboard
Palit 8600GT graphics card
Antec Earthwatts 500W PSU
80GB Western Digital Caviar SE HDD.
Scythe Himuro Hard Disk Cooler
 
Everest Temperature Reporting OSD Idle and load temperatures will be recorded using Everest Ultimate Edition 4.20‘s S.M.A.R.T monitoring facility. Ambient and case temperatures will be measured using a common household mercury thermometer. Ambient temperature at the time of testing was a cool 19 degree’s Celcius and case temperature ranged between 22.8 and 23 degree’s Celcius
 
Idle temperatures will be recorded 20 minutes after the test computer has hit the desktop, which allows for tempuratures to normalise. Load temperatures will be recorded after 30 minutes gaming on Call of Duty 4.
 
At the conclusion of testing the Scythe Himuro, the HDD will be swapped over into the Scythe Quiet Drive and the testing process repeated.
 
Let’s move on to see how the Scythe Himuro performed…
 
Idle temperature chart
 
Load temperature chart
 
Disappointingly, we see elevated temperatures at both idle and loaded states with the Scythe Himuro. Admittedly the results are slightly better than the Scythe Quiet Drive, but still, the Scythe Himuro hasn’t reduced the temperatures on our test HDD.
 
On a positive note I did notice that the Scythe Himuro provided a considerable improvement in the ‘quietness’ of the hard drive.