On Sat 08 Feb at 21:59 Harry Oldenhuis (3:690/416) wrote to Arthur Marsh:
AM> As Jerry Pournelle suggested in a recent issue of Byte
AM> magazine, we've added a CPU fan to keep our 7200 rpm
AM> Quantum XP 34300 drive at a reasonable temperature.
HO> I have A great Big Heat sink sitting on top of the hard disk
HO> and extra fan blowing on it.
HO> I have been turning the system off when the temperature gets
HO> over 32 C, you cant put your fingers on the hard disk.
We recently took the drive bay cover plates off the tower case of our server
and sat a cheap household fan on a box in front of it. Before, the drive was
hot enough to fry eggs.
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