Re: [BLUG] Trying something new

Ok, I think with 15K drives you have to mount them specially. I
remember when Seagate released the first 15K drives years ago, they
released a whitepaper about how to mount them properly and it would
reduce the heat of the drives by something like 10 degrees. I bet you
could still get that information on their site.

From what I remember reading they had a best practice kind of thing
for mounting the drive to the case so that it would transfer the heat
and vibration to the case in an efficient way.

On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 05:15:07PM GMT, adam [docpeppernuwer@yahoo.com] said the following:
>
> I've certainly had the least luck with WD drives
> (five fails before three years) in PC uses and swear
> by scsi as well. I'm pretty hard on drives and used
> to get them worryingly hot routinely until I started
> putting a little thermal paste on the sides when
> mounting them in a permanent home. It may just be
> superstition but it keeps even my 15K cheetah cool
> during hard swap times w/o the use of a specific hard
> drive fan. :D
>
>
>
> --- Simón Ruiz <simon.a.ruiz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 8/11/07, Mark Krenz <mark@slugbug.org> wrote:
> > > Its almost like clockwork on a server that good
> > drives only last 5
> > > years. Its also a wear thing not a time thing.
> > I've been able to boot
> > > up old Macs with IDE drives from the 80s 15 years
> > later after they were
> > > built so its not bit rot that is doing it.
> >
>
>
>
>
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