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Duncan wrote: |
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> Raffaele BELARDI <raffaele.belardi@××.com> posted 47429114.5030102@××.com, |
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> excerpted below, on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:47:32 +0100: |
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> ... You never mentioned exactly what happened to the disk. Mine was |
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> overheating. I live in Phoenix, AZ, and my AC went out in the middle of |
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> the summer, with me gone and the computer left running. With outside |
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> temps often reaching close to 50 C (122 F), the temps inside with the AC |
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> off could have easily reached 60 C (140 F). Ambient case air temps could |
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> therefore have reached 70 C, and with the drive spinning in that... one |
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> can only guess what temps it reached! |
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Duncan, |
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I never get those high temperatures here, the highest I've seen at home |
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is ~30 C (86 F), no AC. I don't think the failure is temperature |
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related, I always mount a 12cm fan in front of the the HD enclosure, and |
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the HDs aren't even warm. |
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Previously the same HD was mounted in a different box, still AUSUS mobo |
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but VIA chipset instead of NVidia, and different BIOS. In that box the |
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disk was not automounted from fstab and if not mounted manually it was |
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normally completely cold even without the 12cm fan running, so I suspect |
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it was not even spinning (low power mode from BIOS?). I mounted it only |
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to archive movies after viewing them. In the Nvidia box behavior is |
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different, the disk warms up even if not mounted, but with the 12cm fan |
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always running the temp is low. |
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I have no explanation for this failure. The disk was used really little. |
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After (if) I recover data I'll try to read the HD SMART database, if I |
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remember well there are some useful counters there. |
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The HD is less than 3 years old and should still be under warranty, I'll |
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try to get a replacement from Seagate. But my movies are more important |
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now! |
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I'm sure it's not related, but the irony is that just few hours before |
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the failure I had run an e2fsck on that partition, not an error did it |
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report. |
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raffaele |
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PS Thanks for the hint on block size. |
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