Posted by Citizen Bob on 10/11/06 13:23

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:53:51 -0400, Xzanado@webtv.net (X L) wrote:

>GMAN those little fans barley do that

At the risk of repeating myself, even with those little fans you must
allow air to flow around all parts of the case. Allow 1" space all
around. You can use plastic crutch tips to lift the unit - just hot
glue gun them on the bottom. You can literally feel the difference in
temperature before and after.

With the new HDD units this is going to become even more of an issue.
The number one killer of hard disks is heat. If you keep a hard disk
cool (30-40C) and not allow it to get hot (50-60C) it will last an
incredibly long time even running 24x7. I just got 7 years out of a WD
Caviar.


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Govt is an insult to human dignity. With or without govt,
you would have good people doing good things and evil
people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil
things, that takes govt. Govt is the root of all evil.

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