Monster IDE Drives

[Kurt Wall]

In a 1.0K blaze of typing glory, Leon Goldstein wrote:

[...]

> I picked up on some rumblings about WD "Jumbo" drives' having an 
> excessive failure rate.
> (I think this came up in an earlier thread)
> I tried to track this down, without finding anything conclusive.  What I 
> did extrapolate was that
> there were some reports of premature failures, and the proximate cause 
> was heat.
> 
> I don't think I have to take up bandwidth on this list preaching the 
> virtues of good case ventilation.
> 
> Like Kurt, I have started to use round IDE cables to remove obstructions 
> to airflow in my cases.
> Just don't use an ATA66/100 80 wire/40 pin cable with a CDROM or DVD.

I'm thinking of getting using an drive tray that has fans on it or adding
a fan (somewhere) for the disk.

Kurt
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