On 15 Aug 2005 at 23:09, Wayne Johnson wrote: > drives. One thing to remember is that if the data is accessed quicker than the > drive starts cooling sooner than conventional drives.
Say WHAT?!?!?!? Have you ever held/touched a 15k rpm drive in use, even sitting at idle? There's a reason scsi hotswap and other scsi enclosures have high capacity fans to keep the drives cool. They generate a LOT of heat. I have several here and have installed several dozen in servers for clients. Extra cooling is MANDATORY for these drives. Heck in the machine I use to write this, I have 2 @ 36gb Fujitsu 10k rpm drives and even with all the extra fans in my system, the drives get almost too hot to touch. Motherboard monitor shows 49c. I have the Enlight EN8721 enclosure for some other drives (15k) and it keeps the drives nicely cooled however it makes for a LOUD system http://www.costcentral.com/proddetail/Enlight_EN_8721/EN8721B02/D88598/ Which is the reason that system doesn't get turned on often.... -- Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (use pgp keyid 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager) -- ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
