Re: disks are hot hot hot

2004-05-28 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Tue, May 11 at 15:35, Antony Gelberg wrote: One thing I did notice is that the disks were rather hot, abnormally imo. The server is hardly stressed, as it's pretty much providing DNS, SMTP, and IMAP for all of one user! :) Motherboard is an ASUS A7N8X. What I am wondering is, is there some typ

Re: disks are hot hot hot

2004-05-13 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya alex On Wed, 12 May 2004, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 18:29, Alvin Oga wrote: ... > > http://directron.com/hdcoolers.html > > > > if there is not say 1" of air clearance above the fans, the fans are just > > noise makers > > There's ABOUT an inch of space between the

Re: disks are hot hot hot

2004-05-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 18:29, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Wed, 12 May 2004, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 23:35, David Cunningham wrote: > > > Sounds good. What brand and model of heatsink do you use? > > http://directron.com/hdcoolers.html > > if there is not say 1" of air cleara

Re: disks are hot hot hot

2004-05-12 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 12 May 2004, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 23:35, David Cunningham wrote: > > Sounds good. What brand and model of heatsink do you use? http://directron.com/hdcoolers.html if there is not say 1" of air clearance above the fans, the fans are just noise makers have fun

Re: disks are hot hot hot

2004-05-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 23:35, David Cunningham wrote: > Sounds good. What brand and model of heatsink do you use? Umm, to be honest, I'm not sure. :) They're copper, the size of a HD, and have 2 fans on them. I can go by the shop where I got them tomorrow and see if they still have the same ones.

Re: disks are hot hot hot

2004-05-11 Thread David Cunningham
> On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 09:35, Antony Gelberg wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I've recently built my first ever server with a pre-compiled kernel >> (2.6.4 >> from backports.org). I had two 160GB SATA disks which both failed after >> only >> a couple of months. I found this extremely strange, unless they

Re: disks are hot hot hot

2004-05-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 03:35:29PM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Hi all, > > I've recently built my first ever server with a pre-compiled kernel (2.6.4 > from backports.org). I had two 160GB SATA disks which both failed after only > a couple of months. I found this extremely strange, unless the

Re: disks are hot hot hot

2004-05-11 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One thing I did notice is that the disks were rather hot, abnormally > imo. Have you ever felt a hard drive that's been running for a long time without stopping? They get hot! It's a moving part, and it

Re: disks are hot hot hot - yup - hddtemp

2004-05-11 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya anthony/alex On Tue, 11 May 2004, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 09:35, Antony Gelberg wrote: ... > > One thing I did notice is that the disks were rather hot, abnormally imo. ... > I'm guessing you're using 7200 RPM or better disks. I've never seen a > 7200 RPM disk t

Re: disks are hot hot hot

2004-05-11 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 09:35, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Hi all, > > I've recently built my first ever server with a pre-compiled kernel (2.6.4 > from backports.org). I had two 160GB SATA disks which both failed after only > a couple of months. I found this extremely strange, unless they were > from

disks are hot hot hot

2004-05-11 Thread Antony Gelberg
Hi all, I've recently built my first ever server with a pre-compiled kernel (2.6.4 from backports.org). I had two 160GB SATA disks which both failed after only a couple of months. I found this extremely strange, unless they were from a bad batch (not likely in this day and age). They've gone ba