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jcrouse:
I'm thinking about it. Probably will just to be safe although I don't believe it would be necessary.

John
dabone:
Those drives will cook.


You need more space in between them and forced cooling with a clear path for the air to exhaust the cab.

(Don't want to keep recycling the hot air, it just keep getting hotter)

Run it like that for 24 hours and see how hot those get, you will be real suprised.

Later,
dabone

2600:
Besides the heat of the drives, I'm worried about the power supplies.  Two separate power supplies like that is generally not a good idea.
quarterback:

--- Quote from: dabone on July 23, 2005, 04:08:27 pm ---Those drives will cook.

You need more space in between them and forced cooling with a clear path for the air to exhaust the cab.
--- End quote ---

Although it's probable that most of those drives will spin down, unless the whole thing is RAIDed.  They're 250gig each, right?   I wouldn't think he'd be using all of them at once, it seems like most of them are 'storage'.

But yeah, I'd still move them further apart and put some fans on them.  I've got three 250 gigs and a 300gig (or 360?) in my video editing machine and those drives get pretty warm.
JustMichael:
I would put more space in between the drives and add fans to cool them.  You won't believe how hot a hard drive can get with no active cooling.  The drives will thank you...   ;)
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