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In article <46s0so$1uh@rn.com>, Larry D Snyder <larry@rn.com> wrote:
>>But seriously, if you are unwilling to devote the time and $$$ to do the
>>proper cooling then definitely avoid Barracudas.  But if you give them the
>>proper care, feeding, and love they will serve you long, well, and fast.
>
>But should one need to go to such extremes with such an expensive
>drive?  I don't think so.

A Ferrari is an expensive car, but it has much higher maintenance
demands than a Toyota.  The ST15150 was designed to provide bleeding
edge performance (for its time); ease of installation was never one of
its goals and it was sold for servers, not desktop machines.  It is
more like a Ferrari than a Toyota.  It's expensive and you have to
pamper it with forced air cooling on both the top and bottom.  If you
don't want to do that, you bought the wrong drive.

Seagate's 4 GB "desktop" drive is the Hawk 4 (ST15230), which is
slightly slower and cheaper, and runs cooler because of its lower
spindle speed of 5400 rpm instead of 7200.  I sold my ST15150
recently because I didn't want to deal with cooling it, and I'll
probably get an ST15230 soon.

>We've gone through 5 of the 15150N's in
>the last 5 months on one of our news machines at the office -- and
>in each case Seagate was at least good about getting a replacement
>our via next day air -- but the hassles of bring the machine down
>gets one depressed...

Were you cooling them properly?