Le mercredi 27 avril 2005 � 11:17 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a �crit :
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/27/2005 12:15:31 
> AM:

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> Also, you seem to be obsessing over little things:  dust, filtering the 
> air, etc.  Dust is going to do little to damage a drive.  However, keeping 
> the drive relatively cool is incredibly important for reliability.  You 
> sound like an end-user (rather than an administrator with a server-class 
> box).  If so, make sure that your box has sufficient air flow.  Most 
> consumer cases (even fancy "modder" cases) have way too little airflow, or 
> have airflow in the wrong places.  You want lots of cool air being sucked 
> in the front-bottom of the case, and lots of hot air being blown out the 
> top-back.  Make sure that there is airflow over your drive(s) as well.
> 

Well, this system is actually a end-user system. It's a PVR with two
SATA huge drives.

> People put massive fans (or acitve refrigeration or water-cooling or...) 
> on their CPU's and forget about cooling their drives.  I'd rather lose a 
> CPU and motherboard than lose a drive.  I can buy new CPU's.  I can't buy 
> new data!

Since it rests in the living room, adding noisy fans is out of
consideration. I will have to find another way. May just split the
functions and install the server and disks somewhere else in the house
and keep the PVR functions in the living room as a dataless or
cache-only system. Recorded shows are still in sane filesystems and can
be recovered. Not sure if I can rebuild the database and the rest is OS
and configuration.

> And don't overclock.  But that's another conversation!  :)
> 

Never ever considered this avenue.

Thanks for the info.

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