[PLUG] Hard drives -- danger?

Mike De La Mater mikedela at ipns.com
Fri Aug 23 08:21:03 UTC 2002


I wouldn't stack two right next to each other if I could avoid it at all. You 
might try a 5.25" to 3.5" adapter to mount a drive in a CD-Rom drive space. I do 
that a lot. Most PC stores have these gizmos if you ask.

Mike

8/22/02 4:54:46 PM, alan <alan at clueserver.org> wrote:

>On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Tyler F. Creelan wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Eli Stair wrote:
>> > Check to see if you possibly have both your IDE hard disk and your IDE DVD 
drive
>> > on the same cable, and both set to master.
>> 
>> Thanks for the help on these issues; I decided to retire the cd drive and
>> buy a new fan.
>> 
>> Another hardware question for sysadmins; is it okay to stack harddrives
>> right next to each other? Since I only have two bays there's not much
>> choice, but there's virtually no space between my two hard drives and it
>> gets awfully hot there. What happens if hard drives get too hot? Is it
>> possible in a desktop environment?
>
>It is possible for them to get too hot.  (Especially if they are a type 
>that run hot normally, like the old Seagate Baracudas.)
>
>I had one drive start to hallucinate because of overheating.  It caused 
>some "interesting" problems.  (I got a file with a null (0x00) in it. Ted 
>Tso was quite amazed over that one...  Took a bit to fix.)
>
>There are fans that you can get that will help cool the drives.  You can 
>also get heat sinks and other things to help cool them down.  Many 
>computer stores have them. Pacific Solutions on SE Powell is where I get 
>them.  Other places may be closer to you.
>
>
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