On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, maarten wrote: > Yes. I know that full well. Therefore my server drives are mounted directly > behind two monstrous 12cm fans... I don't take no risks. :-) exactly... lots of air for the drives ( treat it like a cpu ) that it should be kept cool as possible > Still, two western digitals have died within the first or second year in that > enclosure. So much for MTBF vs. real world expectancy I guess. wd is famous for various reasons .. > It should be public knowledge by now that heat is the number 1 killer for > harddisks. However, you still see PC cases everywhere where disks are > sandwiched together and with no possible airflow at all. Go figure... its a conspiracy, to get you/us to buy new disks when the old one dies but if we all kept a 3" fan cooling each disk ... inside the pcs, there'd be less disk failures - and equal amounts of fresh cooler air coming in as hot air going out c ya alvin - 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
