[Gllug] Potential dodgy hard drive? What to do

[jane taylor]

On Fri, 9 Nov 2001 08:58:34 +0100 (BST), you wrote:

~On Thu 08 Nov, Peter John Cameron wrote:
~> 
~> A month ago, I bought an IBM 75GXP Deskstar 76Gb hard drive specifically for
~> Suse 7.3. I shopped around on the net to find the cheapest price and amongst
~> dabs.com, simply.co.uk and insight.com/uk, the cheapest was Simply. I
~> ordered one for home and a smaller drive for work.
~> 
~> Last night, whilst surfing in a moment of boredom, I came across reports of
~> the 75GXP 76Gb drives being dodgy, and eventually found myself at
~> storagereview.com. I checked the three sites above, and now not one of them
~> is now listing the 75GXP drive.
~> 
~> I mentioned this on the Suse list and was advised to buy a new drive.
~> 
~> So, what should I do? The drive cost me 190. I'm intending to phone Simply
~> and ask if they have that drive in stock and then ask why they don't sell
~> it, and then say I bought one a month ago from them.
~> 
~> Any best approach advise?
~> 
~> Peter
~
~   General rather than specific experience tells me that the larger the
~drive capacity the greater the need for adequate cooling of the drive, and
~the lower the temperature the longer the problem-free life. Computers
~specifically designed as long-life servers have large airflows past the
~drives.

Following on from this, I'd suggest popping the drive into a 5 1/4"
bay so it's not too close to other HDDs (if you have a couple of bays
free) and then popping one of the snazzy pairs of bay fans in above or
below it. They cost about £6 and are pretty quiet. I try and have an
inch or so airgap between drives, and as many case fans as I can fit
in. This means I've got a full tower that sounds like Concorde taking
off...





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jane

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you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
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