Re: 500 GB WD My Book external H/D suddenly not wanting to fire up

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From: PeeCee
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:58

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"Centre Parting" <nokia.account@ntlworld.com> wrote in message 
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 class action suite bought by
> the US gov.t against IBM for HDD failures.


I take it there is some sort of heat related failure? do you have a url?
Most of the searches I did found financial securities and other business 
actions.


> I would rather believe the evidence of my own experience than some 
> bullshit 'study'


Fair enough, one can only live life as one has experienced it.

On that basis however 'my' experience tells me having a fan blowing on a 
Hard drive does not extend it's life.
In fact just the opposite.
(Unfortunately my sample has only two failed drives out of 14 installed. 
This covers 7 PC's from 2002 to 2009. )

In case #1 the single drive in the case had a fan directed at the underneath 
from new, it died at about 24 Months.
Case #2 has 3 drives in it, two had a front mounted fan blowin air over them 
(again from new), the third was buried in a 3.5" cage under the floppy 
drive.
On this machine it was a drive in the fan air stream that died, again at 
about 24 months.
Cases 3 to 7 didn't have any drive failures and none of those had a fan 
blowing over the hard drives.

Paul.

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