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Man-wai Chang
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      28th Oct 2006

I just bought 2 Seagate 250G to set up RAID 0 array with 3Ware 8006-2LP.
The disks are really hot. ANy comment about the effect heat on their life?

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      28th Oct 2006




Man-wai Chang wrote:
> I just bought 2 Seagate 250G to set up RAID 0 array with 3Ware 8006-2LP.
> The disks are really hot. ANy comment about the effect heat on their life?




More hot, less life.

With any software (Speedfan, etc.) able to read the SMART data, from
the HD, you is able to check the temperatures.

You may need use passive or active (with fan) coolers to help.

SB

 
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Rod Speed
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      28th Oct 2006
Man-wai Chang <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote

> I just bought 2 Seagate 250G to set up RAID 0 array with 3Ware 8006-2LP.
> The disks are really hot. ANy comment about the effect heat on their life?


Hard to say if you dont say exactly how hot they get.

It isnt hard to separate them with a free drive bay between them
in a decent case and have some air blowing over them, and that is
usually worth doing with those seagates that do get warmer than most.


 
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Arno Wagner
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      29th Oct 2006
Previously Man-wai Chang <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I just bought 2 Seagate 250G to set up RAID 0 array with 3Ware 8006-2LP.
> The disks are really hot. ANy comment about the effect heat on their life?


The usual: Heat kills harddrives.

Look into the archives of this group. This is a frequently
discussed issue.

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Splork
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      29th Oct 2006
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 22:02:13 +0800, Man-wai Chang <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

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>I just bought 2 Seagate 250G to set up RAID 0 array with 3Ware 8006-2LP.
>The disks are really hot. ANy comment about the effect heat on their life?


I routinely put a 60-90mm Fan for cooling the hard drive/s. If there is no
convenient place, make a bracket out of some aluminum or any kind of metal you
can find and arrange it so you have a mounting screw hold it and a screw
attaching a fan to it. best practice is to have more air blowing on the
controller chip than the rest of the drive.

Dell routinely mounts their hard drives vertically so the heat from the chips
leaves the circuit board. Their drives do not fail frequently due to this
mounting.

Never had a drive fail with a good fan on it, including the IBM "Deathstar"

These seagates are not cool running drives.
 
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