Alan McKinnon wrote: > My experiences aren't worth much in this case, what I had to deal with > was data center setups where - the power has never gone off for 6 > years - the drives never spin down and just keep on turning year after > year - the servers were the nice big ones Dell makes with awesome > cooling - the data center feels like a fridge and the ambient temp > never varies more than 1 deg - the server power supplies are seriously > high grade, the 5V and 12V out of them are solid and do not fluctuate > at all Add all this up and it's an almost perfect environment for > drives to last a long time. You don't have that, not even close. I > have only 1 little bit of anecdotal data: my nas at home has 4 x 3T WD > Green drives in it, going on almost 2 years now. My kids hammer the > blazes out of that thing, and ZFS scrubs keep it real busy when the > kids don't. And those drives just keep on turning and turning and > turning, I didn't do anything special. I put it down to statistics - > no-one makes bad drives (or cars) these days and I haven't pulled the > unlucky card yet. I dunno, go figure
Well, it does make good points tho. I keep my room here pretty cool. It's not as cool as your data center but I have a window A/C and my own heater. I don't mind it being a little cool in the winter but don't like it warm in the summer either. The cooler the better. I also have the Cooler Master HAF-932 case with those really nice large fans. The hard drives are right in front of the front intake fan. I have a power supply that is really to big for what I have running. I can't recall the brand and wattage just that it doesn't pull near as much power as I thought it would. It pulls less than half what my older and much slower puter pulled. Also, I rarely shut this thing down. I did the other night to unplug/re-plug all the cables but other than that, it is usually because I have lost power from the mains. So, keep them cool, good clean power and leave them running when ya can. Sounds like a plan. ;-) Dale :-) :-)
