Jerome H. Fine wrote:
Allison wrote:
One last item The RD53 and RD54 drives run hot
(around 35W) and
lots of cooling was one way to insure they lasted longer. Heat is
the enemy
of those older drives and it is not unusual to find a system there
the fans were dead or clogged and the drives failed..
Jerome Fine replies:
Heat is the enemy of every drive, some more than others.
Most current 3.5" multi-GB drives generate so little
internal heat that it is not a problem.
???
I am finding the most recent drives are much hotter than older ones.
I have a bunch of 3.5's under 10Gb that run way cooler than the newer,
10Gb++ lot.
Three of my seven newest 30+Gb disks have already fried and died and
one can't write anymore.
I've had to liquid cool the survivors because airflow just won't work
anymore without very cold air.
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jd
fortune: cpu time/usefulness ratio too high -- core dumped.