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Date:      Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:53:22 +0100
From:      Tony Byrne <freebsd-current@byrnehq.com>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Tony Byrne <freebsd@byrnehq.com>, jon@abccomm.com
Subject:   Re[2]: ATA Woes.
Message-ID:  <14963954.20050719195322@byrnehq.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050719183540.GA97643@freebie.xs4all.nl>
References:  <151574576.20050719103740@byrnehq.com> <1591154927.20050719132119@byrnehq.com> <8eea04080507191122225bd9ac@mail.gmail.com> <20050719183540.GA97643@freebie.xs4all.nl>

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Hello Wilko,

Tuesday, July 19, 2005, 7:35:40 PM, you wrote:

WB> On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 11:22:01AM -0700, Jon Simola wrote..

>> What I've recently learned the hard way is that desktop drives have no
>> place in a server. I've now failed 4 of 10 SATA drives (Maxtor and WD)
>> in 1U rackmounts, and am moving on to trying the WD Raptor SATA drives
>> (which claim to be low-end server).

WB> Properly cooled?

I can't speak for Jon, but the two disks that 'failed' sequentially on
me in the last 48 hours took turns in a housing that had fans
installed to draw air over the drive.  Smartctl reported the drive
temp. as 26 Deg.C.




Regards,

Tony.

-- 
Tony Byrne





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