Main > Main Forum
Hard Drive noise damping
Lachlan438:
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on May 12, 2008, 06:56:49 am --- I also recommend making sure there is a fan blowing air across the drives surface to expand its life expectancy. (heat dramatically reduces HD lifespans)
--- End quote ---
what is hot for a hard drive :dunno
patrickl:
--- Quote from: Lachlan438 on May 13, 2008, 06:20:18 am ---
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on May 12, 2008, 06:56:49 am --- I also recommend making sure there is a fan blowing air across the drives surface to expand its life expectancy. (heat dramatically reduces HD lifespans)
--- End quote ---
what is hot for a hard drive :dunno
--- End quote ---
Google's research showed that (in a normal operating environment) temperature isn't one of the most important factors in drive failure anyway. IIRC only in old drives, higher temperatures showed higher failure rates.
Xiaou2:
I had 4 drives fail on me over the years. Always was the dive that was mounted on top.
The bottom drive cooked the top drive to early death.
Ever since Ive placed at least 1cm+ between drives and had fans blowing across the
surface, Ive not have any drives fail (several years). Ive had 4 drives hooked
up in my custom case for over 3yrs. And for about 3 yrs, have had 8 drives hooked up in
my new case mod.
They are cool to the touch at all times. (unless its the middle of the summer heat, and the AC is not on)
Hard drives have insane tolerances. Heat can cause metal to expand... and quite possibly
cause head to wear and damage much faster. It may also cause premature bearing wear.
Also Minwah, you could still use a vertical mount with the hanging solution. Ive personally always
been leery of mounting vertical because Im not sure if the bearings and head will hold up as long
that way. However, life expectancy reduction vertically is probably only minimal reduction at best, if at all.
paigeoliver:
The largest compact flash cards out there now are 64 GB. I'd be hard pressed to fill THAT in a cabinet unless I was just dumping every rom ever dumped for every system ever made onto it.
--- Quote from: Minwah on May 13, 2008, 05:39:54 am ---
--- Quote from: GinsuVictim on May 12, 2008, 11:42:54 am ---One thing to make sure of is if you have a CD or DVD drive, take any discs out. When I forget and leave one in, I'm reminded VERY quickly to take it out.
--- End quote ---
Yes I know what you mean. I don't have a CD/DVD drive in my cabinet tho.
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on May 12, 2008, 11:25:48 pm ---Unless you are going for a FULL installation with all the CHD games you can actually just run the whole system off a compact flash card and have no hard drive at all. Combine with one of those fanless slimline PCs and the whole thing could be silent.
--- End quote ---
I like the idea of this in theory, but last time I looked there wasn't a CF card big enough for my needs. I think in a bartop or something I would definately consider this.
--- End quote ---
Xiaou2:
heh, my mame folder is 65 gigs ;D
When you add artwork, samples, icons, and other stuff... it adds up.
Btw - it would seem that these solid state drives should whip the pants off a spinning disc...
however, the results that some are posting arnt as impressive as you might think.
For one, I think they shouldnt be using standard SATA interfaces. Should be some faster port developed
for them... or a custom card interface...etc. Not sure how fast the internal bandwidth is on those drives...
but one would think that the connection pipe would be the real limiting factor...
I saw a setup that uses PC RAM in bunches for Hard Disk emulation. Its constantly powered with
battery backup - and its speeds are insane! Of course... the prices are pretty insane for them too.
Still, if one had the money.. booting windows in 2 sec's flat would be da Bomb :)