Forwarding a comment from Ricky Beam over on linux-raid: " Where "for some reason" == HEAT. I've seen Maxtor, Seagate, AND Western Digital drives all shutdown when they get too hot -- so hot you cannot touch them. I know this all too well because Dell is stupid or lazy to design their cases with proper ventilation over the drives; one drive simply gets hot, two drives get hot enough to discolor their plastic drive sleds. Unless you're talking about little laptop drives, hard drives need active cooling. A few CFM is usually enough. A LOT of people underestimate the cooling needs of their drives. (and sadly that includes far too many manufacturers of IDE/SATA drive cages.) " -- dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
