Friday afternoon hardware questions

[Bill McGonigle]

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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