Re: Western Digital hard drives are garbage

From: kony (spam_at_spam.com)
Date: 06/01/05 

Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 15:40:40 GMT

On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 12:17:17 GMT, spam@spamcop.com (Bob)
wrote:

>On 31 May 2005 22:01:49 -0700, mno2go@gmail.com wrote:
>
>>I'm the same as pjp, I've not had any problems with WD drives, either.
>>Their Raptor drive also works very well for me.
>
>I believe the enemy is heat. Those who have good luck with HDs manage
>to keep theirs cool.
>
>I asked WD tech support what they considered the safe operating
>temperature for their drives and they replied that 15 - 55C. I have a
>temp probe (SMART) on my WD SEs and they run no hotter than 40C when I
>defrag them.
>
>My case has places for 4 fans in the front and 2 of them are directly
>in front of the internal 3.5" bays. That way you can blow air from an
>80mm fan right over the disks.
>
>I also have a Kingwin KF-23 removable bay with 3 fans - 1 in the bay
>and 2 in the drawer. With the tray in the bay 24x7 the hottest I have
>seen the disk get is around 40C. Uusally it rides around 37C when
>Windows is idling.
>
>I also have the Enermax 352 RAID/Backup unit with its 60mm fan. The
>drives in there run about the same as in the other locations.
>
>There is no excuse for frying a HD anymore.

Nonsense. Drives kept far cooler than your removable bays
can manage and ran from very high-end power still fail.
Heat or power "can" easily damage drives but are most
definitely not the only causes.

In that regard, WD drives are a little worse than many as
their flipped-circuit-board design protects parts from
physical installation (scraping) damage better but also
reduce the airflow further to the PCB mounted parts.
Regardless, they do usually stay cool enough with moderate
airflow.

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