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Dale <rdalek1967 <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> I finally got a new 3TB hard drive. |
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> Thoughts? |
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> Dale |
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Lots of good information posted so far. 2 things I think are missed. |
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Recently, Thailand had some very bad flooding. TV showed clips |
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of the manufacturing districts Flooded by more than 20 feet. Many |
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HD manufacturing plants are in that area. Check, if you can the |
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location of the drive's manufacture. But those folks are very |
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smart and probably partially disassembled the drives, shipped them |
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elsewhere, dried them out and re-assembled the parts.... |
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Second and most critical:: Temperature. Monitor it and try to minimized |
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thermal cycles on HD (all HD). Sure they will take it, minute differences |
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in the "coefficient of expansion" of metals, allowances is what primarily |
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gives vibration and opportunity to be destructive after many thermal cycles |
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loosen things up a bit. There are numerous tools to monitor and log the |
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temps of drives...... Crappy, or loose (specification) drives will fail |
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faster that better quality drives (statistically). Over ventilation of the |
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chassis or housing containing the drives is always prudent. In a 4 HD bay |
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area, mount no more than (2) HD for best results. |
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hth, |
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James |
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