On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 09:35, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Hi all, > > I've recently built my first ever server with a pre-compiled kernel (2.6.4 > from backports.org). I had two 160GB SATA disks which both failed after only > a couple of months. I found this extremely strange, unless they were > from a bad batch (not likely in this day and age). They've gone back to > my supplier as faulty anyway. > > One thing I did notice is that the disks were rather hot, abnormally imo. > The server is hardly stressed, as it's pretty much providing DNS, SMTP, > and IMAP for all of one user! :) Motherboard is an ASUS A7N8X. > > What I am wondering is, is there some type of power saving mode / > setting that I might have missed, a module perhaps? Or do these new > fangled disks just run very hot? I've replaced them with two Samsung > 160GB PATAs, and they're quite warm after only an hour or so, but > admittedly they are doing a RAID sync.
I'm guessing you're using 7200 RPM or better disks. I've never seen a 7200 RPM disk that didn't run rather warm. Some get hotter than others, but they're all rather hot. I have, in the last 10 months, replaced 5 drives, all of which failed within about a month of getting them. I was also having some heat issues with the computer in general. I added two more case fans and got a couple of hard drive heatsinks. They're copper, about the same size as a drive, and have two fans on the bottom. They attach to the bottom of the drive and have an in-line power coupler that you can put between the power supply and the drive itself. I got them for $10 (US) a piece and since then have not had a single drive failure or heat problem. YMMV of course. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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