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From: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
To: Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal@eyal.emu.id.au>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATA/SATA Disk Reliability paper
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:15:01 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200702201515.01677.a1426z@gawab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45DA19C8.8000002@eyal.emu.id.au>

Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> Disks are sealed, and a dessicant is present in each to keep humidity
> down. If you ever open a disk drive (e.g. for the magnets, or the mirror
> quality platters, or for fun) then you can see the dessicant sachet.

Actually, they aren't sealed 100%.  

On wd's at least, there is a hole with a warning printed on its side:

                      DO NOT COVER HOLE BELOW
                      V       V      V      V

                                  o


In contrast, older models from the last century, don't have that hole.

> Al Boldi wrote:
> >
> > If there is one thing to watch out for, it is "dew".
> >
> > I remember video machines sensing for dew, so do any drives sense for
> > "dew"?


Thanks!

--
Al


  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-20 12:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-18 18:50 PATA/SATA Disk Reliability paper Richard Scobie
2007-02-19 11:26 ` Al Boldi
2007-02-19 21:42   ` Eyal Lebedinsky
2007-02-20 12:15     ` Al Boldi [this message]
2007-02-22 22:27       ` Nix
2007-02-22 22:30         ` Nix
2007-02-22 23:30         ` Stephen C Woods
2007-02-23 18:22           ` Al Boldi
2007-02-24 22:27             ` Mark Hahn
2007-02-25 11:22               ` Al Boldi
2007-02-25 17:40                 ` Mark Hahn
     [not found]                   ` <200702252057.22963.a1426z@gawab.com>
2007-02-25 19:58                     ` Mark Hahn
2007-02-25 21:07                       ` Al Boldi
2007-02-25 22:14                         ` Mark Hahn
2007-02-25 22:46                           ` Benjamin Davenport
2007-02-25 23:58                             ` Mark Hahn
2007-02-27 19:21                   ` Bill Davidsen
2007-02-25 19:02               ` Richard Scobie
2007-02-27 19:06           ` Bill Davidsen
2007-02-26 14:15   ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2007-02-26 17:46     ` Al Boldi
2007-02-20  3:03 ` H. Peter Anvin

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