From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Jul 27 9:29:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FA2437B400 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 09:29:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailsrv.amplex.net (mailsrv.amplex.net [65.165.120.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACC3343E42 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 09:29:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@amplex.net) Received: from mark2000 (65-165-120-241.amplex.net [65.165.120.241]) by mailsrv.amplex.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g6RGTTK28334 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 12:29:29 -0400 (EDT) From: "Mark Radabaugh" To: Subject: RE: Hard drives keep dying.....loooking for some advice Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 12:29:29 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <003c01c23583$a12d8ca0$20fea8c0@ddd> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Please loose the HTML crap when posting to the list... >I mean, do drives get "substantially" hotter as the work load increases? Yes >Can anyone make any recommendations on drives? >Any particular brand/model (IDE) that seems to tolerate heat better than others? I have had good luck with all of the major brands - but I don't let them get real hot either. >Do 5400 RPM drives run cooler than 7200 or vice versa? Yes >Do 20 Gb H/D's run any cooler that 40 Gb's? We can use either) I do not think there is much difference >What else can we do to lessen the work load on these drives? >Create a ramdrive? (The motherboard that we have will support 3 Gb's of DDR ram) It would probably help >Any ideas, thoughts, input would be greatly appreciated..... The individual cooling fans for the drives work quite well for keeping the drives cool though the fans die fairly quickly. Mark Radabaugh Amplex (419) 833-3635 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message