Chong Yu Meng: >> Could vibration cause a hard disk to die early? Andy Green: > I guess it could, but I'm pretty sure not in this case -- ha, literally > not in this case. Everything was in a very nice and solid Antec case, > and the HDD enclosure used four large soft gel-like washers between the > HDD and the metalwork. I've been scrounging through my junk collection today, trying to find something like that to save my nerves from a fan that buzzes like hell (and, as usual, ended up going off on a tangent on something else that I found - a MTE radio station console that needs a power supply, but no details about what voltages). By itself it's quiet enough, but when it's bolted to the hardware, it's damn noisy. This is a PII CPU fan, not a chassis fan, so it's not easy to simply replace - no-one around here has something the right size. I'm going to have to jury-rig something, I'm sure not replacing a motherboard, CPU, and the rest, for the sake of a fan. > In addition the first HDD was a 10KRPM job and the second was 7200RPM, > so whatever frequencies they might resonate at would be different. > The 10KRPM lasted months but the 7200RPM guy was killed within a week. How do drives go for thermal dissipation when mounted on those little shock absorbers? Going back a while, the information Seagate put out was that drives should be solidly anchored to the chassis for grounding and heatsinking. -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
