It did it again!

[pentium]

For the second time in less than six months I have had a server drive overheat and crash!
This time it was in a far newer system (pentium pro era) and was located on a removable drive caddy which has it's own fan! I can rule out high voltage problems and poor ventilation and luckily this time around I was prepared with a backup of the drive taken two days ago.
I am jooking at just plain old wear and tear taking it's toll but for some reason, all my scsi drives (seagate on ultra wide scsi) run rather hot.

[Spacedye69]

Re: It did it again!

I was looking online at the specs for a Fujistu drive I bought, and it recommended replacement after 5 years! 3 of the years are already gone(used). 5years old is like brand new to me.

[willawake]

Re: It did it again!

depends what the caddy is. some of those plastic ones with a small fan are crap for ventilation. the multiple ones with the 80mm fans are best.

i am starting to believe more in heat and also power issues in failure of hdds but there can be other mechanical factors also. yeh they like to go one after the other, especially if you look at them wrong.......and i have never received a useful smart warning before failure, they just crap out without any warning or noise these days.

[willawake]

Re: It did it again!

and it recommended replacement after 5 years!

i follow that guideline. you will never see a warranty longer than that. if they are 15.000 rpm scsi then what can you expect. TC should have some info about fujitsu scsi longevity.

for office stuff though. where is the economy? every hour the computer is out of action is costing the price of a new hdd. takes me over a day to do a rebuild these days, the configuration has become so complicated and is changing from month to month and yeh we dont have all same comps to do convenient ghost.

[Spacedye69]

Re: It did it again!

Its 10,000rpm, but if it were mission critical, I would spend the money on new ones and replace them at the end of their warranty period.

[pentium]

Re: It did it again!

Well there are four removable drives, all from ebay and all with 80mm fans.
The drives came from a Government surplus where they had chopped up a server far bigger than what topcat has and sold off parts to the highest bidder.
The server itself is running through a regulator/conditioner and has more fans that of a pig barn. My only flaw is that I have reused old full-height AT cases. The drives sit in their own case and connect via scsi to a controller in the main case.
I don't even want to think of replacing my drives every few years. I only built this server as a place to make file storage easier no matter what computer I am at and so I could ftp my files when I am at school.