Kevin Shackleton <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 23:11 +1030, ishwor wrote: >> Hi Jake and all, >> Jake Anderson wrote: >> > office works is selling 1TB western digital external drives for $178. > >> Not to discourse you/others venture into buying a 1TB WD drive >> but I bought it last month from OW and it blew up on me [the board got >> fried] :( >> > I picked up a 1 TB SATA drive and a 5 1/4" USB / external housing with > fan for about $205. This is roomy around the drive and runs nice and > cool - a must for disc life. I passed by the "disc sauna" offerings.
Actually, temperature has very little relationship with disk life, at least when Google studied their consumer grade disk failure metrics. The details: http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf Regards, Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
