Multiple hard disk failures - coincidence ?

[Jerry Bell]

I've started adding so form of cooling to all of my hard drives and I've
not lost one since (and I used to lose MANY).  Many people underestimate
the effect that heat has on components.

As someone mentioned earlier in the thread, a taxed power supply will also
cause problems.  I've solved several strange system instability problems
by swapping out the power supply for a substantially larger one.

Jerry
http://www.syslog.org

>
> I'd argue for overheating. A guy I know recently had mysterious
> crashes on a brand-new box with a large drive, in fact, I think it
> was a 250Gb MAXTOR. The machine would run for a few minutes and
> then just spontaneously reboot.
>
> I told him it sounded like an overheating drive. After swapping out
> practically every bit of hardware he finally got smart and put
> the HD into a tray with a cooling fan. After that, all problems
> disappeared.
>
> And he only had *two* of these monsters in his machine!
>
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> Gary Jennejohn / garyj[at]jennejohn.org gj[at]freebsd.org garyj[at]denx.de
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