Hi Folks
I know that Hdd's get hot - the question is how hot - how quick.
Now many moons ago (1986 or 7) I have an AT 286 (6MHz 4Mb Ram and a giant 60Mb
Hdd running that incredible OS - DOS with windows 1.1 edging in)
I diverse........ Well it was one hot summer (for the UK at least) and one day
the DIR display showed EVERYTHING on the first partition (32Mb) in one root
directory instead of listing sub directories so there was no tree in effect.
Now the maker (my cousin was R&D manager) said that it was the heat and as the
platters expanded the heads/software lost track of where stuff was. They
suggested that I put a bag of frozen peas near the air intake and allow the cool
air to circulate.
I think we have come a long way in cooling since then but................?
I had a 160Gb SATA Maxtor Hdd running in a reasonably stock case in the lower
mounting cage below the floppy/card reader cradle.
Quite often the machine would reboot and claim "NON SYSTEM DISK"
Took side panel off and rebooted (5 min's) and everything OK.
Replaced panel and within 2 days the same occurrence.
remembering the 286 experience I moved the Hdd to the top of the case and
mounted it on 5.5" - 3.5" adaptor brackets and fitted a case fan intake to the
side panel for more cool air?
Ok for about 6 weeks and then the other day - without warning it rebooted and
announced "NON SYSTEM DISK"
I removed the plastic blanking plates and felt the Hdd - boy Oh boy was it HOT
HOT HOT. After a 5 min wait with my hand soaking the heat I rebooted and all is
OK (didn't replace the covers).
Now the Hdd get dammed hot after only 3 - 5 min's of operation and stays quite
hot - at least 40C possibly 55C (I can barely keep my hand on it and is slightly
cooler than my hot water supply which is set @ 55C.
Is there something wrong with the Hdd or what?
Ideas on a postcard with a $100 attached-----------------?
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