Can I decrease Mac Pro heat?

I work in an office that is about 15'x15' and my Mac Pro kicks off enough heat that it significantly warms the room...
I was wondering if there are any ways to reduce the amount of heat it puts off - do lower power drives even make a difference?
And yes air conditioning, rooms fans or moving the computer as far as possible from where I sit might assist .
Along with that question (and I don't know if related) - it seems that my drives are virtually always spinning when I am using the machine - even small actions seem to spin all 4 drives up (although 2 are clones, and 1 of the other 2 contains just content that I don't regularly access).
The machine details:
10.6.8
Mac Pro Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2 x 2.8GHz
4GB 800 MHz DDR2
4 Hitachi 1TB drives (HDS721010KLA330)
Thanks all-

Thanks - the only item I didn't have checked was to "put the hard drives to sleep...", which I thought if left checked would result in having to wait again and again for the drives to spin up (which is a pain, and can't figure out why they do - I have Spotlight indexing of the other drives off). Curious...
Yes it is a pain. But I tossed it in as a possibility. Pain vs. heat Spotlight may not be the only thing that's "looking around". Maybe you have some add ons that have (startup) processes that may be accessing the disks. But I think that's a topic for another thread.
I should have also added that I don't have the $ for a new machine, but new drives are cheap enouhg that I think I can consider those...will check out the WD you mention. If you ever have seen tests on how much heat drives put out, please let me know - I have never seen such things. I hear discussions of power used, but not specific to the heat it drives (maybe bc I'm asking a ridiculous question though!)
I guess do some google searching. And as GBA suggested above SSDs are a good low-power, albeit more expensive per byte, alternative to HDDs. Fast too!

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