Maxtor's 7200rpm 160's get quite hot, as do their similar drives of greater capacity which use the same mechanicals. I make sure I always have a fan blowing air directly on them. Before doing that, I had one fail in less than a year.
Not to mention, the overall quality experience I've had and heard from others with Maxtor's high capacity 7200 rpm drives is not good, even when kept cool. Hopefully the Seagate acquisition of Maxtor will improve the quality if they intend to keep the brand name alive. We can also hope that Seagate doesn't simply start puttings its name on Maxtor-quality drives and drag down their own reputation for quality. Carl -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hugh Gundersen Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 5:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Hdd temperature (SATA) 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-----------------? -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
