[plug] Hard Disk Temp.

[Craig Foster]

I'd ended up putting a hole in the 3.5" faceplate, just small enough not
to be noticed, but large enough to allow air to flow over the drive. Those
Barracuda II & IIIs get real hot, and that's usually their man reason for
dying. That said, we don't see that many back though :)

I'd also check that there's sufficient space above and below any 7200rpm
drives (it says so i the documentation on the Siltek site before they went
titsup.com) And no, *don't* put them right underneath or above a CD-Burner
or another 7200+rpm drive.
I can say that from experience ^_^

Regards,

Craig Foster.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Simmonds [mailto:simm0 at ii.net]
Sent: Saturday, 6 October 2001 3:17 PM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] Hard Disk Temp.


Yep, screwed righ in to chassis

I've had the HD for around 9 months.
Its never had any errors or bad sectors etc (touch wood).

> On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 02:55, Andrew Simmonds wrote:
> > I was quite amazed the other day when I touched my seagate 7200 rpm
hard
> > drive and it actually burnt me. I'm estimating it to be around 70-80
> > degrees celcius. (Its also under quite a heavy load sometimes)
> >
> >
> > What temp should hard disks be usually operating at?
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