From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB70E1384B4 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 17:04:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2935421C0AB; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 17:03:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1390021C07C for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 17:03:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aAKv5-00040H-Lm for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 18:03:48 +0100 Received: from static-71-122-242-106.tampfl.fios.verizon.net ([71.122.242.106]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 18:03:47 +0100 Received: from wireless by static-71-122-242-106.tampfl.fios.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 18:03:47 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drive noise Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 17:03:42 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <56749E6B.1020800@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 71.122.242.106 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0 SeaMonkey/2.38) X-Archives-Salt: 2f6a3cf3-504f-40d2-8afb-de8aac24c34a X-Archives-Hash: 941508bdb7b65b9732dff8f35d4e1268 Dale gmail.com> writes: > I finally got a new 3TB hard drive. > Thoughts? > Dale Lots of good information posted so far. 2 things I think are missed. Recently, Thailand had some very bad flooding. TV showed clips of the manufacturing districts Flooded by more than 20 feet. Many HD manufacturing plants are in that area. Check, if you can the location of the drive's manufacture. But those folks are very smart and probably partially disassembled the drives, shipped them elsewhere, dried them out and re-assembled the parts.... Second and most critical:: Temperature. Monitor it and try to minimized thermal cycles on HD (all HD). Sure they will take it, minute differences in the "coefficient of expansion" of metals, allowances is what primarily gives vibration and opportunity to be destructive after many thermal cycles loosen things up a bit. There are numerous tools to monitor and log the temps of drives...... Crappy, or loose (specification) drives will fail faster that better quality drives (statistically). Over ventilation of the chassis or housing containing the drives is always prudent. In a 4 HD bay area, mount no more than (2) HD for best results. hth, James