From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 9 20:51:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hiwaay.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3204D37B66E for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 20:51:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt6-216-180-4-152.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.4.152]) by mail.hiwaay.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e9A3pS722786; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 22:51:29 -0500 (CDT) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9A3o9S04888; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 22:50:10 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <200010100350.e9A3o9S04888@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Gary Kline Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad IDE Drive In-Reply-To: Message from Gary Kline of "Mon, 09 Oct 2000 17:08:03 PDT." <20001009170803.A18961@tao.thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 22:50:09 -0500 From: David Kelly Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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