Crappy HDDs Killing Computers

[Tim]

On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 13:04 +0100, Andy Green wrote:
> After three hours on the different powersupply one of the drives (with
> no SATA connection) has spontaneously started clunking every few
> seconds and has twice spun down and up again.  When I picked it up to
> read the label it stopped clunking briefly then resumed.

Just for interest's sake:

Was it mounted somewhere with decent air flow for heat dissipation?
Was it bolted to a metal chassis that would help with heat dissipation?
Was it grounded?
Were anti-static precautions taken during handling?

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