Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 10:59:01 -0600 From: Jan Beck <janb@cs.utep.edu> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Harddisk damage by driver? Message-ID: <000c01c238b3$91b0a6d0$0401a8c0@jan> References: <200207311527.LAA04565@devonshire.cnchost.com> <004c01c238a8$7e8d0ef0$5cab3a40@vizion2000.net>
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That brings up a very good question. How many people have had problems due to overheating? I have had the very odd problem of having 2 IDE drives die over the past month, most likely due to overheating, since it gets very hot in my dual athlon system. These drives had very high usage at almost all times. In my file server, however, the hard drives get VERY hot. So much so, that you can't touch them without burning your hands. All the drives in the file server have been running well over a year in those conditions and I haven't had any problems with it. The server load itself is very light, however. I have heard of drives failig due to heat, but never due to usage. But I can guarantee that the 7200 RPM drives in the file server are much hotter than the drives in the workstations were. Does usage have any bearing on drive life? It seems that the cooling is not important as long as the usage load on the drives is fairly low... Or have I just been really lucky? JAn ----- Original Message ----- From: "vizion communication" <vizion@ixpres.com> To: "Axel Simon" <A.Simon@ukc.ac.uk>; "Bakul Shah" <bakul@bitblocks.com> Cc: <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 9:39 AM Subject: Re: Harddisk damage by driver? > I would agree the problem is likely to be > electrical/mechanical and the most likely cause is > overheating. Your experience with the drive that came up > after some time does point to overheating. > > However you might want to rule out a mal-functioning power > supply unit which could cause similar symptoms. This is > unlikely but possible. > > David > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bakul Shah" <bakul@bitblocks.com> > To: "Axel Simon" <A.Simon@ukc.ac.uk> > Cc: <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG>; > <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 8:27 AM > Subject: Re: Harddisk damage by driver? > > > > The fack that all the drives die makes me think may be > your > > puter is not properly ventilated and the hard disks get > very > > hot. You may have had very bad luck with all the drives > but > > that is not very likely. A bad cable would give you > > read/write errors but it won't make your disk make loud > > repetitive clicking noises! A FreeBSD driver can not be > at > > fault either with modern IDE or SCSI drives. > > > > See if the disks get very hot and if so, see if keeping > the > > box open and pointing a big fan at the disks make the > errors > > go away. If the heat is a problem, you can do a number of > > things to keep good air flow around disks. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the > message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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