Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} External hard-drive choice

[Willie Wong <wwong@Princeton.EDU>]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 08:49:43PM -0600, Penguin Lover Collins Richey squawked:
> >> According to the drive enclosure advertisements,
> >> metal case is better for heat dissipation, but I have no hard
> >> evidence. These units have the "standard" external AC->DC chunky
> >> blocks.
> >
> >My enclosure is made of aluminum. Supposedly, you dont need a fan with an
> >aluminum case. I was quite skeptical as I have seen a lot of other
> >enclosures use fans, but while it does get rather warm, like the underside
> >of a modern notebook, I have not had any issues with hard drives failing /
> >being damaged / etc. Its a Vantec Nexstar 3.
> 
> Ditto for mine - aluminum and not uncomforatablly warm. Since I only
> need it for backups, I'm sure everything will be OK.

Again, thanks for all the feed back. I received my Nexstar 3 today
with a Seagate Barrucuda 320G harddrive. So far it works like a charm:
after backing up my entire system, a process that took roughly 6
hours, the drive was barely lukewarm, so I trust that it will have no
issues in the future with heat dissipation. 

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