From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 18 13:12:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D52A216A4CE for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 13:12:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from stelesys.com (web1.stelesys.com [63.175.100.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B02E543D2F for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 13:12:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jbell@stelesys.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=www.stelesys.com) by stelesys.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1CfeNO-000B9I-25 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 08:12:02 -0500 Received: from 24.98.86.57 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jbell@stelesys.com); by www.stelesys.com with HTTP; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 08:12:02 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4476.24.98.86.57.1103375522.squirrel@24.98.86.57> In-Reply-To: <200412181025.iBIAPBOU003187@peedub.jennejohn.org> References: Your message of "Sat, 18 Dec 2004 20:17:39 +1100." <20041218091739.GC97121@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <200412181025.iBIAPBOU003187@peedub.jennejohn.org> Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 08:12:02 -0500 (EST) From: "Jerry Bell" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Re: Multiple hard disk failures - coincidence ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 13:12:02 -0000 I've started adding so form of cooling to all of my hard drives and I've not lost one since (and I used to lose MANY). Many people underestimate the effect that heat has on components. As someone mentioned earlier in the thread, a taxed power supply will also cause problems. I've solved several strange system instability problems by swapping out the power supply for a substantially larger one. Jerry http://www.syslog.org > > I'd argue for overheating. A guy I know recently had mysterious > crashes on a brand-new box with a large drive, in fact, I think it > was a 250Gb MAXTOR. The machine would run for a few minutes and > then just spontaneously reboot. > > I told him it sounded like an overheating drive. After swapping out > practically every bit of hardware he finally got smart and put > the HD into a tray with a cooling fan. After that, all problems > disappeared. > > And he only had *two* of these monsters in his machine! > > --- > Gary Jennejohn / garyj[at]jennejohn.org gj[at]freebsd.org garyj[at]denx.de > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >