9 Dec
2002
9 Dec
'02
10:53 p.m.
At 01:30 PM 12/9/02 -0800, you wrote:
On Erebus, they use pressurized drive canisters for
external SCSI drives.
At Pole, they don't do anything special. Drives die all the time. To
add insult to injury, massively dry air holds a lot less heat than the
air you and I are breathing right now - computers and hard disks frequently
die from overheating at the South Pole - the air is thinner and drier
and can't conduct as much heat away from CPUs and drives.
Quite frankly, to have a system die of heat exhaustion _there_ seems
ludicrous. As long as the assembly can withstand a steep temperature
gradient, there's lots of cooling available, with temperature low
enough to compensate for the decrease in specific heat many times,
right?
carlos.
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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo(a)nospammers.ieee.org