You said: <Well, It was more or less useless anyway. I can tell you just offhand that <you can lengthen the life expectancy of a drive maybe four-fold if you make <sure it stays below 35 degrees celsius its entire life, instead of ~45 <degrees. <Don't hold me up on that, but you know what I mean, and it is true. :-) ======================================================================== I agree with you, but! I have an old system with 2 18 Gig SCSI disks. One IBM and one Seagate. Both run very hot! I added extra cooling fans. Both fans failed about 2 years ago. Only the CPU and power supply fans still work. The disk drives are too hot to touch. Much too hot to touch! The system is running 99.99% of the time. No disk problems. The system is 4-5 years old as a guess. To help date it, it is a P3-350Mhz. My wife uses this computer. :) I just dripped some drops of water on the drives, it did not boil. But I can only keep my finger on them for less than 1 second. Anyway I think I have been very lucky. I don't recommend hot drives, just a funny example of "rules were made to be broken"! Guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
