Drives. Was - Re: [plug] New box :p)

[Ben Jensz]

Brad Campbell wrote:

>
>How warm were these IBM drives running?
>It seems than in a typical PC case, with standard cooling these things
>could fry bacon!
>With some airflow modifications in the case, I have been able to pull nearly
>20 degrees of the drive temp.
>  
>
Well one of ones that died, did so whilst I was watching, it was during 
boot up from cold in an air conditioned room.

One of them died in a machine that had quite a bit of extra cooling and 
sits in the very cold radio studio server room at work.

>I would rather have purchased Quantum drives as I have had a failure rate of
>zero in the last 7 years, but now they are Maxtor (Who I would not even spit on).
>I figured IBM were the next best thing.
>Plus, IBM still lists warranty at 3 years, where the others have dropped to 1.
>
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I'm not going to bother claiming warranty on my own 45Gb drive that 
died.  I mean why bother?  It'll just get replaced with another IBM 
that'll no doubt die an early death.


/ Ben