From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 3 8:27:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EF8337B401 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 08:27:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rambo.simx.org (rambo.simx.org [80.65.205.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6201D43E5E for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 08:27:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listsub@rambo.simx.org) Received: from rambo.simx.org (Rocky@rocky [192.168.0.2]) by rambo.simx.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g711oBAM033854; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 03:50:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from listsub@rambo.simx.org) Message-ID: <3D48941D.70906@rambo.simx.org> Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 03:51:25 +0200 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020618 Netscape/7.0b1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Beck Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Harddisk damage by driver? References: <200207311527.LAA04565@devonshire.cnchost.com> <004c01c238a8$7e8d0ef0$5cab3a40@vizion2000.net> <000c01c238b3$91b0a6d0$0401a8c0@jan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jan Beck wrote: > 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 > Overheating sure can cause all kinds of hardware failures. I have seen boxes chew through drives at insane rates, and improved cooling and airflow does very often if not always fix the problem. Check any drive vendors homepage and you will probably find that they specify a recomended operating temperature and clearly states that a higher temperature may damage your drives. -- R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message