George Toft wrote:
> Just found out I had a serious transient heat problem with my two SATA
> drives. The SATA drive electronics heat up real bad (too hot to
> touch) when the drive is under heavy load. I was getting system
> lockups - it seems that when the SATA drive electronics heat up, the
> SATA disk driver reports three ATA errors and then the box locks up.
> By putting a fan under the drive, it stays cool and the drives work fine.
>
> I bought a couple $12 thermometers with external sensors. I mounted
> the display outside the case, and put the leads on the circuit board
> of the SATA drives and watched as I tried various things. Anything
> that causes the drive to perform a lot of IO (find, dd, tar, etc)
> causes the CB to heat up, and the drives to "fail"
>
> Obvious solution is to get a pair of drive coolers. Any other
> suggestions. Anyone else have this problem?
>
> Sign me - wishing I used PATA drives...
I had the same problem with external usb drives. While I was on
vacation, the heat generated killed the drive along with half of my
vacation pictures.
I only by external enclosures that have built in fans now.
Anything that pulls the heat away from the drive will work. A heat sync
on the drive wouldnt hurt either :)
JD
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