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On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 08:49:43PM -0600, Penguin Lover Collins Richey squawked: |
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> >> According to the drive enclosure advertisements, |
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> >> metal case is better for heat dissipation, but I have no hard |
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> >> evidence. These units have the "standard" external AC->DC chunky |
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> >> blocks. |
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> >My enclosure is made of aluminum. Supposedly, you dont need a fan with an |
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> >aluminum case. I was quite skeptical as I have seen a lot of other |
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> >enclosures use fans, but while it does get rather warm, like the underside |
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> >of a modern notebook, I have not had any issues with hard drives failing / |
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> >being damaged / etc. Its a Vantec Nexstar 3. |
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> Ditto for mine - aluminum and not uncomforatablly warm. Since I only |
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> need it for backups, I'm sure everything will be OK. |
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Again, thanks for all the feed back. I received my Nexstar 3 today |
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with a Seagate Barrucuda 320G harddrive. So far it works like a charm: |
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after backing up my entire system, a process that took roughly 6 |
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hours, the drive was barely lukewarm, so I trust that it will have no |
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issues in the future with heat dissipation. |
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The NY Symphony and Schwarzenegger Enterprises have |
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merged. Their new logo reads: "I'll Be Bach, Will |
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You Be Haydn?". |
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Sortir en Pantoufles: up 21 days, 6:20 |
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