Installation, Testing and Comparison:

Installation is very easy, just a couple screws and you are done, then just plug it in. I mentioned earlier about the Orbiter only using two screws, you can see this in the following picture, no which way I moved it I still could only use two of the holes. This isn't a bad thing, it locks in tightly and doesn't move, but for me personally I would like the assurance of the extra screws holding it is place.

If the Orbiter is to the back of the drive it seems like it might interfere with the connections, and if moved toward the front it really doesn't cool the chipset of the hard drive, so I installed it in the middle where it seems to fit perfectly.

The blue LED of the fan emits a soft blue glow, not really bright, but just enough to catch your attention.

The temps of my hard drive do drop a couple degrees over not having the Orbiter installed, nothing drastic but it does help to cool the drive, so it does as it is supposed to do. The Obiter is also virtually silent, it blends in with every other fan in the case, the loudest thing in my system right now is my Biostar 7600GS video card (review soon) which pretty much drowns everything else out. So, it's quiet, cools your HDD and looks good while doing it, what more could you ask for?

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