[sclug] hot drives

[Dickon Hood]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 01:20:57 +0200, Pieter Claassen wrote:
: Eeeek, I am in hard drive hell!!!

: A while ago I swore never to buy Maxtor ever again but then .....

A wise move.

: I have two 120GB Maxtors in a soft raid config (actually they are
: plugged into a cheap PCI PATA raid card but after config, the linux
: kernel still sees them as two disks so I just went with soft raid).

It works.

: The one disk failed the other day and I pulled two 250GB SATA Maxtors off my 
: shelf with a cheap Sweex SATA raid controller.

Oh dear.  You were doing *so* well up until this point...

: All works fine (other than once the raid array has been set up in the SATA 
: bios then linux still sees two drives so I just went with soft raid again).

: My problem is that these drives run so hot (notwithstanding the sales burp on 
: the box stating that SATA runs cooler than PATA), that I cannot touch them. 
: The are not going to last a week unless they have titanium circuitry in them. 
: They are also separated with a 2cm air gap and good airflow (passive).

Add a fan.

I've never heard anyone claim that SATA is cooler than PATA, with the
exception that as the cables are thinner, the airflow *may* be improved
which should improve the cooling performance.  Certainly I can't think of
a good reason why SATA drives should be inherently cooler; quite the
opposite in fact: they're generally better-specced, and need more
intelligence than the equivalent PATA devices.

: Does anybody have any experience with this? Seen this. Anything I can do
: short of never buying a maxtor again?

Stick an aircon outlet infront of the case?

Seagate SCSI / SAS.  The only way to be sure.  (Having said that, I've got
a couple of perfectly satisfactory Western Digital drives, which do the
job.  But this is a desktop, and software-mirrored, so not too critical).

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Dickon Hood

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