my case doesn't have as nice a setup. still, i think only one of my drive
failures was because of overheating.

Herb....
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 10:02 PM
Subject: Re: Harddisk MTBF IDE versus SCSI


> When I designed the machine I set up the cooling system to ensure that all
air
> entering the system was forced across the drives as it's first point of
entry.
> I have one fan on the air intake and three exhaust so if any one (or even
two)
> fans fail there will still be adequate airflow for the system. The system
> houses 6 drives and has been running constantly since 1997 (hence the
limited
> DMI support).


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