Re: Re: I keep frying hard drives

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:37:47 -0400, Larc <larc-news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

The normal working temp of most HDDs is @ 35 to 40C, which would be 95 to 104F.
Keeping most at 90F (@ 32C) or below would require specific HDD cooling in many
cases.

I have a 15,000 rpm SCSI drive that would quickly fry without active
cooling. (I learned this the hard way).

The drive is mounted with the circuit board facing up and a Vantec
Iceberg heatsync/fan combo mounted directly on top.
http://www.casecooler.com/vablichacoh1.html

It stays at a fairly constant 33c.

A_C



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