Re: Add hard drive to E510, can I do it?


"Curious" <Curious@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"HDRDTD" wrote:

Ambient temp is measured by a desktop thermometer sitting on top of the
case.

No, the house has no airconditioning and its about 88 F outdoors.

And yes, if there is airflow past the drives, it would very easily be a
bit
lower than outside temp.

Or, your Dell must have a built-in air conditioner.

Yeah, that's it.... The Dell's air conditioned....... drops the temp of the
HD's a whole .4 C.



Later tonight when it's activilay recording a TV show, I'll see if I can
remember to check the drive temps again.

The measurents are not going to change any.

Only one way to find out.

Keep in mind the systems sits idle most of the time. It's only current
function is to record various TV shows. It's just a glorified DVR.

My main work is done on a completely different system.



"Curious" wrote:

"HDRDTD" wrote:

Ambient temp outside the case 31.4 C
HD 1 Maxtor 80gig 31.0 C
HD 2 Maxtor 100gig 31.0 C

31.4 C = 88.5 F - Don't you have cooling?
Drives are cooler than ambient???!!!
The same temperature for top and bottom bay???!!!

My measurements with one dirive:

Ambient - 27.8 C (82 F)
Drive at top bay - 40 C
Drive at bottom bay - 42 C

Drive at bottom bay with no drive at top is 2 degrees warmer, thus
made me wonder how warm a second drive at bottom bay would be when top
is not only blocked, but occupied with warm object.

Based on my measurements, I say that your numbers are hard to believe.


System is currently idle, running Windows MCE I'd have to wait till it's
activally recording a TV show before I can record temps under load.


"Curious" <Curious@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sun, 28 May 2006 22:13:24 -0400, "HDRDTD" <HDRDTD@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I have an E510 that has had two HD installed running 24/7 since
October
when
I bought it, with absolutley no problems whatsoever.

Check the drive temperatures?

DiskCheckup
http://www.passmark.com/products/diskcheckup.htm



Here's a link to the E510's service manual.

BTW, the photo of the 5000 does indeed look just like the E510 in that
area.


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"Curious" <Curious@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Check the drive temperatures:

Can't imagine it would be that high. It's a well ventelated case.

I haven't seen an E510/E5150 in person, but from pictures one can
tell it has a vertically stacked hard drive cage which is rotated
for
easy
access. Many such arrangements provide less than ideal airflow over
the drives. To illustrate, down this page is a picture of a
vertical/rotated
cage:

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article60-page1.html

The large oval openings allow air to move over both the tops and
bottoms of each drive, keeping them cool. I can't find a good pic
of a E510/E5150 hard drive cage, but it looks as though it might
be the same as that in the 5000:

http://www.tecchannel.de/_misc/img/detail1000.cfm?pk=342558&fk=402544&id=IM_5CF8BDB6-DEFB-681E-D2DB0CE838836B8A

which would appear to provide essentially no airflow across the
drives. Anyone seen an E510/E5150 and can comment?








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