Hard Drive Placement

[sthames]

Is there any problem with sandwiching two hardrives together in your computer case? I was a little unsure when I installed them if this was appropriate or not. Now here it is about 25 days later, and the new 25 day old Maxtor 80 Gig, died today. Started making funky noises, and then went kaput. Raid 0 too. Ahhh.


Thanks
Shawn

 

[Ilmater]

If you mean laying one right on top of another, then yes, there is a problem. See, heat is the devil. And it will eat up all of your components like there's no tomorrow. Heat hates you, and you should hate heat. If you place two hard drive together, then you'll end up with no place for the heat to escape to. You probably damaged the other drive as well.

 

[HalfCrazy]

Originally posted by: Ilmater
If you mean laying one right on top of another, then yes, there is a problem. See, heat is the devil. And it will eat up all of your components like there's no tomorrow. Heat hates you, and you should hate heat. If you place two hard drive together, then you'll end up with no place for the heat to escape to. You probably damaged the other drive as well.

hmm. I have been stacking drives like that for ever and not even one hdd died on me. If you got enough air flow in the case it won't be a problem.

 

[sthames]

The case was a fancy Lian Li, with

2 Fans on the Front, 1 on the top, and 1 on the back. I also used rounded cables.

I put both drives together in the 3.5 area, maybe I should have separated them with the floppy or instead put one in the 5 1/4 area.


Thanks.

Shawn

 

[everman]

It shouldn't have caused the drive to die so quickly...but it's not healthy for it either.

and yes, heat is the devil.
rma that sucker if you can.