Re: Multiple hard disk failures - coincidence ?

On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 08:12:02AM -0500 I heard the voice of
Jerry Bell, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> 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.

I heartily second the motion.  I get all twitchy when I see people put
hard drives in a system without a fan directly on them; some of 'em
even put drives in places where there's no circulation at all!
Y'know, the one part of the system with very delicate and very moving
parts, and that's the piece they decide to cool the least!

I always put my drives in these:
<http://www.pcpowercooling.com/products/cooling/drive/bay-cool/index_bc3.htm>
and they've worked wonders.  The increase in density (3 drives in 2 HH
slots) is a nice plus, too; and with the fan, the density doesn't blow
out the heat as well.  Not the cheapest such things out there, but
they're built like a tank and I haven't had a fan out of 'em die on me
yet.

The only thing I'd change about 'em if I could would be to adjust the
way the front metal piece holds the filter on, so you can get it out
to clean without having to pull the front of the case off.  It's easy
enough to hack together such a mechanism for home use of course, but I
was thinking something more suitable for colos.

Of course, it means I need to be more careful to get cases with lots
of exposed 5.25" bays; I never use the infernal[0] 3.5"ers, except on
specialty cases that already have a big fan in front of 'em.


[0] Yes, that's what I really mean   8-}


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