Friday afternoon hardware questions

[Bill McGonigle]

On Jan 20, 2008, at 19:33, Bruce Dawson wrote:

> Well, that's a good counter-example to all my prior thoughts. Sounds
> like you've solved the "proximity heat" problem just by separating  
> them.

Only masked - they *used* to work just fine all in a stack.  Only  
recently has that been a problem, so the root cause still exists, and  
I suspect your hypothesis is correct.  A few days on I can report no  
drives going offline since separating them, which gets me by.

> Hmm. Actually, I think you've just found another reason for having
> household data centers: heat the home! :-)

My home electric bill went down by $50 when I moved my servers to my  
office - and it was *still* frigid down in the office (no heat down  
there yet). I can get a half cord of green wood for that!

> Yeah. That would be useful. Still, given cable length restrictions on
> SATA, that's a lotta heat in a small space.

It's not too bad - I have a 6' e.SATA cable on one of my drives.  The  
connectors are the worst of any technology I've ever seen - has  
anybody here solved this?  I think the multilink cables are better -  
infiniband connector, IIRC.

-Bill

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