Friday afternoon hardware questions
Bill McGonigle
bill at bfccomputing.com
Sun Jan 20 19:02:47 EST 2008
On Jan 18, 2008, at 08:07, Ben Scott wrote:
> In addition to Bruce's great wisdom: Where they overheating as in
> "measured temperature too high", or overheating as in "more cooling
> made them work"?
Both as in, "ouch! damn, that offline drive is hot" and then it
worked after cooling it down, and now stays cool being isolated from
the others.
> If the later, it's likely a component which is worn
> out is starting to have marginally acceptable performance. Cooling
> things down will usually help such situations.
Yeah, I'm probably on borrowed time, but with mirrors and backups I'm
probably more risk-tolerant than paranoid at the moment. Plus these
are only $83 drives now, while the 1TB drives sing their
'consolidation' siren song to me, at about the same $/GB. And I'd be
better off with a SATA shelf so I could smartmon them all... at some
point the cost/benefit ratio will probably tip that way.
-Bill
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