ATA Woes.

[Tony Byrne]

Hello Wilko,

Tuesday, July 19, 2005, 7:35:40 PM, you wrote:

WB> On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 11:22:01AM -0700, Jon Simola wrote..

>> What I've recently learned the hard way is that desktop drives have no
>> place in a server. I've now failed 4 of 10 SATA drives (Maxtor and WD)
>> in 1U rackmounts, and am moving on to trying the WD Raptor SATA drives
>> (which claim to be low-end server).

WB> Properly cooled?

I can't speak for Jon, but the two disks that 'failed' sequentially on
me in the last 48 hours took turns in a housing that had fans
installed to draw air over the drive.  Smartctl reported the drive
temp. as 26 Deg.C.




Regards,

Tony.

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Tony Byrne