[geeks] Dell T105 drive bay fan

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Apr 24, 2008, at 23:22 , Nate wrote:

>> Without the fan, the lower drive bay has no wind moving by it at all.
>>
>> Dell should be shipping the fan with SATA and SAS, not just SAS.
>
> Are you sure?
>
> http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf
>
> "Contrary to previously reported results, we found very little  
> correlation between failure rates and either elevated temperature or  
> activity levels."

Yes, I'm sure.

They also found that SCSI was no better than SATA if I recall correctly.

I've been installing hard drives, thousands of them, for over 20 years  
now.

The hot ones, the ones that vibrate a lot, and the cheap ones die.

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Shannon Hendrix
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