2009/1/13 Daniel Pittman <dan...@rimspace.net>: > Kevin Shackleton <kev...@bbsat.com.au> writes: >> On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 23:11 +1030, ishwor wrote: >>> Hi Jake and all, >>> Jake Anderson wrote: >>> > office works is selling 1TB western digital external drives for $178. >> >>> Not to discourse you/others venture into buying a 1TB WD drive >>> but I bought it last month from OW and it blew up on me [the board got >>> fried] :( >>> >> I picked up a 1 TB SATA drive and a 5 1/4" USB / external housing with >> fan for about $205. This is roomy around the drive and runs nice and >> cool - a must for disc life. I passed by the "disc sauna" offerings. > > Actually, temperature has very little relationship with disk life, at > least when Google studied their consumer grade disk failure metrics.
within reason though. I've seen hard drives that heated up so much they started fires (these were faulty of course, but if they were a bit cooler, there might not have been a problem). > The details: http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf > > Regards, > Daniel > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
