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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html