Harddisk clicks -> System freezes/reboots
Tim
ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Tue Jan 23 22:41:00 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 10:24 -0700, Robin Laing wrote:
> I think with the power supply being low, the drive head will swing
> back and forth between park and seek, thus can heat up the drive. Of
> course in todays newer drives, heat can be an issue without this.
You would have thought that some of the "intelligence" in IDE might have
put a voltage sensor in there, that made it shut down if it wasn't
operated with full voltage... But that would be too sensible.
> If you demand it, you will get a good power supply. Of course that
> good power supply can fail, as it did in my case. The issue for me
> was that the warranty required me to ship it a certain way to the USA
> at my cost which would have been over 50% of the cost of a new power
> supply. Thus the warranty was useless.
Yes, I've noticed that with quite a few things. It's their escape
clause for doing warranty jobs. I'd be arguing that broken devices was
entirely the manufacturer's fault, and their duty to pay. There's a lot
of things that have a useless warranty where I live, simply because of
the expense you'd have to go through to send it away.
> I found an online power supply calculator that you put in the number
> of drives, fans, processor type and other accessories. It would
> calculate the size of power supply needed.
I've seen one or two of those before. They made me think of stereo
system salesman, the ones who push what *they* call a 800 Watt unit onto
clueless customers. Some of the estimations seem a little exhorbitant.
- You need a 500 Watt power supply.
- What for? I'm not trying to cook a roast with it...
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