Jerome H. Fine wrote:
jd wrote:
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.
Jerome Fine replies:
I purchased 3 * 40 GB ATA 100 3.5" Maxtor drives in 2002. One died
within a year and was replaced. The other 2 died early this year
followed almost immediately by the replacement.
I now have 3 * 160 GB drives since they no longer seem to make a 40
GB drive that is any less expensive.
But, even though they don't seem to run even warm (I can touch them
and they don't seem any warmer than my hand), PC drives seem to
fail after about 5,000 hours of use.
The last round of drives were Maxtors. They were too hot to touch. Too
hot to handle when clamped in a heatsink with a good fan.
Liquid cooling kept the temp down to about 108 to 113 degrees
Fahrenheit. In winter.
Seagates before that which all failed when the warranty chip timed out.
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