If you have a drive stacked on another drive, or by another heat source, it can overheat. I bought a fan that fits inside one of the cdrom bays. You mount the HD inside the unit and two fans blow on it at all times.
Jesse On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 02:15, Nick W wrote: > Out of curiosity, has anyone on the list had bad experience with toshiba 2.5" > drives? Ive had 2 [nearly brand new] fail on me so far in under a year, and a > third one [6 mos old] nearly bit it this morning, oddly enough its working in > linux but XP chokes on it. The problem originally surfaced in linux but after > powering down for a bit I managed to get it mounted [heat issue?] and got my > sensitive data off of it just in case. Im just wondering how much of an issue > is heat with regards to hdds failing? I run this poor thing pretty hard a > lot. :-s _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
