Yea!!! Buy a new one (I think 100 GB drives now come in serial boxes ;-) and put your old one out on the ledge while in use. That will keep it cooler.
Steve who will also now buy a new HD which he has put off doing. On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Jack Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > Had to have one cooling fan replaced about a year ago when an "equipment > failure" shut me down. Big relief!! > > Jack > > --- On Sun, 1/23/11, Cotty <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Cotty <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: I'm going to cry now... I STOPPED CRYING :_) >> To: "pentax list" <[email protected]> >> Date: Sunday, January 23, 2011, 1:51 AM >> Ann, >> >> It would appear that the design of the hard drive enclosure >> is poor, not >> allowing enough air circulating inside - this leads to >> overheating, and >> when metal components get hot, they expand. With small and >> critical >> tolerances, this leads to early failure. >> >> If you want to continue using the drive in the short term, >> find the air >> vent holes (I think they are in the base on this one) and >> orientate the >> device so those holes are pointing straight up. Keep it >> cool - maybe >> next to a window. Retrieve your data. >> >> It could well be that the hard drive inside will continue >> to function >> perfectly normally inside a different enclosure, or better >> yet, in a >> drive dock like Paul has and recommended. But don't bank on >> it. >> >> Whatever hard drive you have, it is a pretty good idea to >> have two of >> them (not necessarily by the same manufacturer!) and use >> one as your >> main external drive, and the other purely as a duplicate >> safety backup. >> That way, you will always have a failsafe copy of all your >> data. >> >> Hope this helps and best of luck (and a hug!) >> >> -- >> >> >> Cheers, >> Cotty >> >> >> ___/\__ >> || (O) | >> People, Places, Pastiche >> ---------- http://www.cottysnaps.com >> _____________________________ >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link >> directly above and follow the directions. >> > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
