> -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Halcrow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 16:01 > To: BYU Unix Users Group > Subject: Re: [uug] Death of the Linux Cow Server > > > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 03:50:52PM -0600, Shaun Ladewig wrote: > > Apparently has nothing to do with heat (moved it, opened up the > > sides, made sure the fans were happy, and watched the internal > > temp... all ok... and yet the same hard drive failure messages... > > Thanks anyway... > > I am suggesting that long-term accumulated damage occured due to > constant heat; if this is the case, cooling it down at this point > will not fix it. Hard drives, with all their moving parts and fast- > spinning platters, are especially vulnerable to this. Opening your > chassis will not help at this point if the hardware is already > damaged. In fact, it may even make things worse, since air cannot > circulate as efficiently as it does when the case is closed. Your > best option is to make sure that your components are well spaced > inside the chassis, there is plenty of space near the vents, your > power supply has two fans, and (possibly) you have extra fans in the > side of your chassis (if you're paranoid). > > Adequate cooling may or may not have anything to do with your > current hardware problems, but it is, in general, good practice. > High temperatures inside your chassis can, with time, cause all > kinds of annoying electronic stability and mechanical problems - not > necessarily reversable. > > Mike
Along with Mike's suggestions, I also recommend a drive bay cooler (see [1] for a good example, though certainly not the only one out there) for any system that's left powered on a majority of the time. Naturally, there is a noise issue -- that's true anytime you add more fans to a system -- but if your computer is on all the time, you've (hopefully) already dealt with the noise by sticking the box in a room where you don't care about the noise :) I suspect that failure to use such a device was one of the reasons I had a server drive fail a few months ago. The strange thing is, I use a bay cooler in my desktop system. Why, then, haven't I got one in the server? Something I suppose I should address (as soon as budget allows). [1] http://www.pcpowercooling.com/products/cooling/drive/bay-cool/index_bc3.htm ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
