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From: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
To: Stephen C Woods <scw@seas.ucla.edu>, Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Cc: Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal@eyal.emu.id.au>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATA/SATA Disk Reliability paper
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:22:16 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200702232122.16730.a1426z@gawab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070222233021.GA10618@seas.ucla.edu>

Stephen C Woods wrote:
>   So drives do need to be ventilated, not so much wory about exploding,
> but rather subtle distortion of the case as the atmospheric preasure
> changed.

I have a '94 Caviar without any apparent holes; and as a bonus, the drive 
still works.

In contrast, ever since these holes appeared, drive failures became the norm.

>    Doe anyone rememnber that you had to let you drives acclimate to your
> machine room for a day or so before you used them.

The problem is, that's not enough; the room temperature/humidity has to be 
controlled too.  In a desktop environment, that's not really feasible.


Thanks!

--
Al


  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-23 18:22 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
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 [this message]
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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