On Sunday 06 February 2005 14:01, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > TM> For PC's left on for long periods, they have a different problem > > TM> because disk drives that spin at full speed continuiously (as > > TM> server drives do, servers have power saving disabled on their > > TM> drives of course for obvious reasons) the disk will eventually > > TM> overheat in just about all the garden-variety case designs. > > TM> (you can fix this yourself of course, by adding more fans to > > TM> the cases) Once the drive overheats the lubrication migrates > > TM> out of the bearings and if the drive is turned off for more > > TM> than 6-8 hours, it cools down enough to the point that the drive > > TM> will never spin up again. > > > > Interesting! Have you actually had this happen? > > Yes, about 6 times over the last 10 years. All of it was crap small > minitowers or otherwise airflow-restricted cases that let the drive > heat up too hot to touch. > > Sometimes hitting it with a hammer - hard - right when you apply power > will get them going again.
I guess old SCSI drives are built better than modern IDE. I have an archaic thing thing running a small web server and it is built a damn site better than most other computers I've seen. It has and old SCSI drive that's built like a brick. -- /Xian "The only real valuable thing is intuition." Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
