Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 22:50:09 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad IDE Drive Message-ID: <200010100350.e9A3o9S04888@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> of "Mon, 09 Oct 2000 17:08:03 PDT." <20001009170803.A18961@tao.thought.org>
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Gary Kline writes: > On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:40:13PM -0400, Robert wrote: > > Hello, > > I used to own a Compaq Proliant 800/850 (one of them) with an > > internal > > RAID 5 array with about 4 8gb Seagate Baracude(SCSI UW). I had two of the > > drives fail on me after about 4 years, due to heat and just the > > fact that we plain ran them into the ground. I have a feeling that these > > new IDE drives, much like some old SCSI drives, have problems with > > inadequate ventilation. Most of these new 7200 rpm drives (IDE) run VERY > > hot and most people do not provide proper cooling for their computers. I > > recommend to anyone who wants to extend the life of their ide > > drives to purchase the "drive cooler" product from Antec. Not only do > > they cool the drives down they have a protective dust shield where the > > fans are so you dont contribute to dirtying the components. > > > Can you explain more about these drive-coolers? URL's or > whatever would help. Don't sweat the drive cooler stuff just yet. Go to Radio Shack, Walmart, K-Mart, etc, and purchase an indoor/outdoor digital thermometer, preferably one with a max/min function. $15 to $25. Mount the outdoor probe on your HD. Then decide for yourself if the HD is too hot. I have lots of fans, an extra blowing out, an extra blowing on the HD. And the result is my FH 3.5" IBM SCSI 9G HD is running 15 degrees F over room temperature. Currenlty its 94F on the HD. Without digging up manufacturer's specs about 115F to 120F is where I'd start getting really worried. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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