On March 18, 2004 04:28 pm, Jesse Kline wrote: > 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. >
Unfortunately its a laptop, but I am going to invest in a notebook cooler ASAP [any reccomendations?]. I wonder where that drive sits relative to the CPU, cause I work this machine hard and it runs hot quite often... > 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 -- Nick W ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Registered Linux User #324288 (http://counter.li.org) MSN Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: foolish_gambit ICQ: 303276221 _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
