On Sunday 19 September 2004 12:01 pm, 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.
that works fine for most purposes. necessity is the mother of invention
>
> 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"
I see this on some older scsi controller cards here at home (the built-in one
for the netserver LH fails periodically when this happens).
>
> Obvious solution is to get a pair of drive coolers. Any other
> suggestions. Anyone else have this problem?
you might also try getting a sheet of copper (24 guage or the like), drill
holes in it for mouting, place some heat sink grease on tne drive elextronics
and mount that copper "plate". have a fan blow across that. the plate will
move pretty much all the heat.... beauty about this, it doesn't take a lot of
extra room and you get to keep the drive cooler.
Technomage Hawke
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