Hard drives roasting on an open fire...

Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited December 2004 in Hardware
Well, it would appear that I've been cooking the hard drives in my dual athlon system accidentally for god only knows how long. I noticed the other week that I was getting temps in DTemp of like 58*C on one drive, but I figured that there was no way they could actually be getting that hot... after all, I had a 120mm fan in front of them, right?

...apparently not. Somehow the fan got disconnected or something. So I've got these 4 7200rpm drives stacked right on top of each other with NO cooling. I just noticed this a few minutes ago. Stuck my hand in the case, touched one of the drives, and it was almost burning hot. I mean it hurt to touch it... so I said "oh ****", shut the system down, and poked around inside it. That's when I found the disconnected power lead. No idea how long it's been like that. I just hope I haven't done any permanent damage to the drives... :shakehead :bawling: :bawling: :banghead: :banghead:

//EDIT
Title changed to be more festive and christmas-y :rolleyes:

Comments

  • Access_DeniedAccess_Denied tennessee
    edited December 2004
    nothing like a good hot platter of maxtor ;D
    seriously that sucks tho
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited December 2004
    yeah... and we're talking like 8 platters here... grr... :banghead:
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    Computers are not sardines.
  • JustinJustin Atlanta
    edited December 2004
    Dude, if you needed a space heater for your room, all you had to do was ask...
  • dragonV8dragonV8 not here much New
    edited December 2004
    Ouch!!!1 :(
  • madmatmadmat
    edited December 2004
    Major bummer man, I hope they're ok.
  • JChretienJChretien Vancouver, BC, Canada
    edited December 2004
    lol ^^
  • RADARADA Apple Valley, CA Member
    edited December 2004
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    Today's special is a stack of 8 Maxor Flapjacks w/ syrup 'n butter, ,,,.......hope you like 'em well done!


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  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited December 2004
    Geeky1 wrote:
    yeah... and we're talking like 8 platters here... grr... :banghead:
    Thats maxtor for you. then again my westrendigitals get a little hot without a fan on them nowhere above 40C tho :p
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