So after returning home from vacation, the weather was unseasonably warm and humid here. I decided to check on the temps inside the server and things weren't pretty. The hard drive temps were pushing towards 50?C. If it was this bad now, I'm sure when summer actually arrived it would be the death of my hard drives.

So I finally bit the bullet and replaced the nasty old beige case that I'd been nursing across a decade and 4 or so motherboards. The old case has a place for a case fan on both the front ...