Fedora Core 5 Issues

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Fri Aug 18 10:44:02 UTC 2006


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.

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