Posted by NunYa Bidness on 12/21/05 15:08

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:55:01 GMT, bv@wjv.com (Bill Vermillion) Gave
us:

>Older drives had specific mounting instructions to ensure cooling.
>The Seagate Baraccuda's had tech sheets that specified direction of
>air flow, spacing between drives, and which side MUST be up when
>mounting horizontally. Those drives like to burn themselves up if
>not cooled properly.

Old barracudas (the early 10k rpm jobs) ran so hot that they nearly
reflowed the solder on the PCBs they contained... Airflow or not.

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