🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <8ubhc7$5n9$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk>, Craig <Craig@linux2knospa
m.freeserve.co.uk> writes
>On Wed, 08 Nov 2000 00:11:28 GMT, Paul Richards (Pauldoo) 
><pauldoo@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>> And now my new 30 gig IBM drive is starting to show signs of
>>it being goosed..  The drives were all quite new when they broke, and
>>I'm suspecting that it could be due to overheating..?
>
>I wouldn't really think so... everything should be fine.. Try and sort the 
>cables out in the PC and make sure the fan is taking in air and breathing
>out warm air at the bottom front of the PC. Maybe your best bet is to get
>another fan to keep the PC cool?
>
Actually, I *would* think so. It has been noticed that the temperature
in the case is quite high.

There was a thread on comp.unix.admin some while back, and it was
pointed out by someone that they had had the opportunity to do a study.
They had compared the life of their drives in an office and an
airconditioned computer room etc.

The cooler the temperature INSIDE the case, the longer the average life
of the drives. And an air-conditioning failure, which drove the computer
room temperature sky high, was rapidly followed by a spate of drive
failures. This with drives which had proved to be above-average in
reliability...
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