On 29 Mar 2005 14:20:12 -0800, "Keith Jewell"
wrote:

My Seagate 7200.7s have been working fine. I bought a quality case that
has good cooling for all the drives and didn't stack any of them
together. So far, the only failure was a Maxtor, which threw a SMART
code before failing so I was able to pull the data that wasn't backed
up off of it. Of course, in retrospect, it wasn't backed up because I
didn't need it, but I hardly knew that at the time.

Thanks to the new FDB tech and lighter platters, the new 7200s run as
cool as any of my old 5400s ever did. And they're quieter, too. Anyway,
I'm out of space at the moment (2x120, 1x160). Is that $30 after a
rebate? I do need to build a couple of media boxes and those might be
ideal in mirrored pairs.

-Keith


Yes Keith you are right. heat is the principal enemy of electronics,
I modify my case in order to accommodate a larger fan located in front
of the 4 hard drives and they run just above the ambient temperature.

On the previous subject. I completed the installation of 3 switches
that turn power OFF to the drives ( the C: doesn't have a switch) and
I am about to go out and get one more switch to install on my second
serial drive.
So far everything works fine.
I even, accidentally , switched power OFF on one of the drivers that
was running and switched ON again with no problems.

Thanks to all of you that contribute to this small project.

Vlad