Munish Chopra wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:45:16PM -0400, Jason Andresen wrote:
> > One interesting theory on there was that the drives were overheating and
> > somehow damanging themselves. Although this doesn't seem too likely,
> > I wonder if it isn't a catalyst.
> >
> > Truthfully, that board was all over the place, and I'm not sure I trust
> > any of the posts on there any farther than I could throw them.
>
> Yeah it was quite Slashdottish. I just summed up the few things that
> were confirmed by several people. Since reading that, I saw the
> overheating theory on aother board too. I've been happy with my IBM
> drives so far, but if a drive fails just because it gets a little bit
> warm, I'll be looking other places. I must admit, something or the other
> stinks of brain-damaged engineering...
Heh, I have a Western Digital Caviar drive (WDC AC32500H) that will lock
up if it gets too hot. Worse, it's sitting right next to an IBM
DDYS-T36950N drive which gets really d@mn hot if I don't keep airflow
running over it at all times, but doesn't seem to have the shutdown
problem the Caviar has.
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