Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 08:12:02 -0500 (EST) From: "Jerry Bell" <jbell@stelesys.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple hard disk failures - coincidence ? Message-ID: <4476.24.98.86.57.1103375522.squirrel@24.98.86.57> In-Reply-To: <200412181025.iBIAPBOU003187@peedub.jennejohn.org> References: Your message of "Sat, 18 Dec 2004 20:17:39 %2B1100." <20041218091739.GC97121@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <200412181025.iBIAPBOU003187@peedub.jennejohn.org>
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I've started adding so form of cooling to all of my hard drives and I've not lost one since (and I used to lose MANY). Many people underestimate the effect that heat has on components. As someone mentioned earlier in the thread, a taxed power supply will also cause problems. I've solved several strange system instability problems by swapping out the power supply for a substantially larger one. Jerry http://www.syslog.org > > I'd argue for overheating. A guy I know recently had mysterious > crashes on a brand-new box with a large drive, in fact, I think it > was a 250Gb MAXTOR. The machine would run for a few minutes and > then just spontaneously reboot. > > I told him it sounded like an overheating drive. After swapping out > practically every bit of hardware he finally got smart and put > the HD into a tray with a cooling fan. After that, all problems > disappeared. > > And he only had *two* of these monsters in his machine! > > --- > Gary Jennejohn / garyj[at]jennejohn.org gj[at]freebsd.org garyj[at]denx.de > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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