Ben <shadr...@gmail.com> writes:
> 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).
Um, I give: if your disk is hot enough to start a fire it will probably
shorten the life of the component, yes. ;)
What were the circumstances, if you can relate them? I am curious.
Regards,
Daniel
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