Re: Ventilation/cooling of PCs

["Timothy Morris" <timmorris@xxxxxxx>]

It depends on what you use the PC for, and how old your motherboard is.
Supermicro (and others) sell boards which have built in SCSI. The drives
are
more expensive than IDE, but not by the same margin as a year ago.

Tim.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: patrick@xxxxxxx [mailto:patrick@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 02 August 1999 14:06
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Ventilation/cooling of PCs
>
>
>  <19990802124033.48274.qmai-@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/ukha_d/?start=745
> > Most drives are designed to run pretty hot - I just bought a new
> 17.3GB
> > ultra-DMA66 for my MP3 library, which is rated to run up to 60
> degrees
> > celcius - that's pretty hot!
> >
> > None of which helps you of course! but I'm surprised to hear of
your
> two
> > sucessive failures - do you have any indication of the actual
temp
> inside
> > your PC case? - if you can, measure it, and compare it against
the
> data
> > sheet for the drive & see if it's within operating range,
'cos if it
> is,
> > then you've got a warranty claim!!
>
> I too was a bit surprised - and can't be absolutely that this is the
> cause of failure - but it seems the most plausible explanation as far
> as I can see. The first drive which failed was running so warm it was
> almost too hot to touch; changing the case and providing additional
> ventilation meant the replacement drive ran warm-to-touch. The
> temperature doesn't fluctuate significantly in the cupboard, which I
> would have thought would have helped to improve reliability. I will
get
> a digital thermometer before I make any further changes so I can
> measure before-and-after.
>
> Thanks to the others who have contributed suggestions. I'll add more
> fans to the PC case and follow up on Nigel's suggestion of a ceiling
> level vent. The deceased drive was an EIDE model; I'm hesitant to
> switch to SCSI - the drives and controllers are more expensive, and
I'd
> lose an expansion slot.
>
> Patrick
>
>
>
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