[clue-tech] Cheap Dell server box

[Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier]

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 08:13:04 -0700, Richard Knechtel
<rknechte at starband.net> wrote:
> 

> Why? Lets see, one guy I work with has gone through 3 of them - burned up.
> He even had to have is case open with an osolating fan blowing into the
> case. Yes this was on a Dell PC even.  We just had another guy on Thursday
> had his SATA drive fail/die/crash this was in a Dell PC that was less than
> 6 months old. In a development environment you can' afford to
> be  rebuilding your system constantly because of drive failures.

I work for a hosting company and we use SATA in a large number of
machines. I'm not aware of any heating issues unique to SATA drives
vs. SCSI or IDE.

As far as I know, there's no real difference between SATA and IDE
drives as far as the physical makeup of the drive, with the exception
of the electronics and connector types - and SATA should be more
cooling-friendly since the cables don't obstruct air flow the way that
IDE ribbon cables do. If someone is more experience with SATA drives
and the difference between SATA/SCSI and IDE, and knows this not to be
true, please correct me.

So far, I haven't seen any SATA drives fail in the environment I work
in - though I've seen a number of SCSI and IDE drives fail (after long
and productive lives...).

Perhaps Dell buys particularly crappy SATA drives, or has been the
victim of a bad batch... I seem to recall IBM had a high failure rate
with some of their SCSI drives a few years ago.

Best, 

Zonker
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