On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 04:13:14PM -0500, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Or, a third possibility, which is: you are misunderstanding what Ben is > > saying. :) He means the ambient temperature *inside* the case, not outside. > > Presumably, it's not 40C in his server room or office. Even my > > poorly-conditioned office is, as you can see below, only 82 degrees F -- > > about 27C. > No I think what is being stated is that it is hard to imagine how the > disk drives can be at lower temperature that the air in the case. At > least not for long. Otherwise the air the case would begin to heat the > disk drives and eventually they would be at the same temperature. That would certainly be the case if you didn't have any fresh air coming *in* to the case, which hopefully you do. :) In many setups, there's an air intake for the hard drives. On one of my older systems which has a big, hot scsi drive, I have a dedicated fan/heatsink thing (like this: <http://www.directron.com/lhdv07.html> -- not where I got mine, but the first google hit with pictures). -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 82 degrees Fahrenheit.
