__/ On Sunday 28 August 2005 18:47, [Philip Herlihy] wrote : \__
> I've put a new Seagate 40Gb disk into a rather nasty little case, with not
> much room for the disk to "breathe", although nearby surfaces are
> (conductive) metal. It's getting very hot during an installation (and
> it's
> been running all day). So hot that if it was any hotter I wouldn't want
> to
> touch it. As hot as a recently made mug of coffee - stimulating on the
> hand which holds it but not uncomfortable.
>
> Is this normal? If not, what would cause it? I noticed the previous disk
> was also pretty hot (um...) just before it conked out. Ooo..er....
If you cannot fry eggs on your hard-drive, you know something has gone amiss
and your hard-drive does not perform properly. Hard-drives should be able
to endure high temperatures unlike processors that can melt if you do not
provide them with a functional fan.
I remember quite well that my friend could not even /touch/ his hard-drives.
He has this arrangement whereby he shelves the hard-drives, sliding them in
and out depending on who uses the machine. I have never heard of an
overheated hard-drive, but I have seen a hard-drive explode... I was about
14 when I mistakenly did this... never mess with the screws while the
hard-drive is spinning. Smoke of death...
Roy
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Roy S. Schestowitz UNIX: Because a PC is a terrible thing to waste
http://Schestowitz.com
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