Crappy HDDs Killing Computers
Tim
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Thu Aug 24 07:36:11 UTC 2006
Tim:
> > Other things that kill drives can be: Vibrations, they should be bolted
> > firmly in place, and nothing else should vibrate the chassis. Tortional
> > stress - you don't want a chassis that twists or squashes a drive.
jdow:
> If you are in a high vibration environment the drives really should be
> mounted in shock mounts if you have the option. Solidly mounting them
> to the chassis simply conveys the shocks directly to the delicate
> insides of the drives.
Oh definitely. Though sometimes you put a drive into a situation where
you never expected vibration to be an issue:
I've had a fan go wonky in a box last week that had the whole chassis
thrumming along with it, to the point where the drive started
misbehaving. Luckily, in this case, all it did was show up a fault in a
poor hard drive power plug - one of those crappy 4-pin molex plastic
connectors - a loose gripping contact. But when you consider the tiny
dimensions of the head skimming above the platter, continuous (and
otherwise) small vibrations in the chassis can be a significant thing.
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