On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 08:49:43PM -0600, Penguin Lover Collins Richey squawked: > >> According to the drive enclosure advertisements, > >> metal case is better for heat dissipation, but I have no hard > >> evidence. These units have the "standard" external AC->DC chunky > >> blocks. > > > >My enclosure is made of aluminum. Supposedly, you dont need a fan with an > >aluminum case. I was quite skeptical as I have seen a lot of other > >enclosures use fans, but while it does get rather warm, like the underside > >of a modern notebook, I have not had any issues with hard drives failing / > >being damaged / etc. Its a Vantec Nexstar 3. > > Ditto for mine - aluminum and not uncomforatablly warm. Since I only > need it for backups, I'm sure everything will be OK.
Again, thanks for all the feed back. I received my Nexstar 3 today with a Seagate Barrucuda 320G harddrive. So far it works like a charm: after backing up my entire system, a process that took roughly 6 hours, the drive was barely lukewarm, so I trust that it will have no issues in the future with heat dissipation. W -- The NY Symphony and Schwarzenegger Enterprises have merged. Their new logo reads: "I'll Be Bach, Will You Be Haydn?". Sortir en Pantoufles: up 21 days, 6:20 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
