Quoting Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie>:
> I bought a very large (300GB) SCSI disk on eBay,
> and put it in my desktop,
> but it gets very hot.
> Is that par for the course with large SCSI disks?
> Do I need a special fan?
>> The disk is a Hitachi Ultrastar (10,000rpm).
>> Also, the disk has 80 pins, while the disk it is replacing had 68 pins.
> I'm using a 68-pin to 80-pin adaptor from Hong Kong.
> Is that likely to be adequate?
> (The disk seemed to be found OK by "fdisk /dev/sdb",
> but I didn't partition it because it was running so hot -
> I thought I'd better sort that out first.)
>> Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.
A lot of these drives can run hot, and thats really not good.
You should seriously consider adding a cooling carrier thingy. They
use a 5.25 slot (cdrom bay) and will save you data long term.
Regards
Conor.
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